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> Date: December 1, 2010 12:52:25 PM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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> Subj: Today, Wednesday, December 1, 2010
>
> December 1: no answer is an answer
> This is December, the 12th month of the year;
> • The 12th Tradition reads: Anonymity is the spiritual founda
> tion of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles be
> fore personalities.
> • The 12th Step: Having had a spiritual awakening as the resu
> lt of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
> to practice these principles in all our affairs.
> • The 12th Promise: We will suddenly realize that God is doin
> g for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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>
> Thought for the Day
> The thoughts that come before having a slip are often largely
> subconscious. It is a question whether or not our subconscious
> minds ever become entirely free from alcoholic thoughts as long as
> we live. For instance, some of us dream about being drunk when we
> are asleep, even after several years of sobriety in A.A. During the
> period of our drinking days, our subconscious minds have been
> thoroughly conditioned by our alcoholic way of thinking and it is
> doubtful if they ever become entirely free of such thoughts during
> our lifetime. But when our conscious minds are fully conditioned
> against drinking, we can stay sober and our subconscious minds do
> not often bother us. Am I still conditioning my conscious mind?
>
> Meditation for the Day
> Having sympathy and compassion for all who are in temptation, a
> condition which we are sometimes in, we have a responsibility
> towards them. Sympathy always includes responsibility. Pity is
> useless because it does not have a remedy for the need. But
> wherever our sympathy goes, our responsibility goes too. When we are
> moved with compassion, we should go to the one in need and bind up
> his wounds as best we can.
>
> Prayer for the Day
> I pray that I may have sympathy for those in temptation. I pray
> that I may have compassion for others’ trials.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 1975,
> Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This book
> was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Daytona
> Beach, Florida.
>
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> No answer is also an answer
> –Danish proverb
>
> Have we ever prayed and felt God must not have heard us
> because our prayers weren’t answered? We may have asked for strengt
> h or protection or for things to change. Yet hours, days–even weeks
> –later we may still be in the same situation, feeling the same way.
> God always hears us, but sometimes the answers aren’t immedi
> ate or guaranteed. Sometimes the best answer is no answer, meaning
> we need to stay in an uncomfortable situation a little longer. Perh
> aps there is something we need to learn that can’t be learned unless
> we find it on our own.
> We aren’t abandoned when our prayers are answered by silence
> . Silence teaches us to listen closer, observe longer, and learn
> more in order to find our answers.
>
> From Night Light, a book of nighttime meditations selected and
> introduced by Amy E. Dean, published by Hazelden Information &
> Educational Services, Center City, Minnesota, second edition, 1992;
> November 22 entry, abridged [I left off the ending meditation–Eigil
> ]