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> Date: December 3, 2010 10:43:40 AM EST
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> Subj: Today, Friday, December 3, 2010
>
> December 3: The A.A. program is largely one of mental training.
> How well is my mind prepared?
>
> Heh YO--Jason S. will have 6 years on Sunday, Dec. 5. Man if that
> isn't a reminder that we're getting old!!!!
>
>
>
> 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.
> _______________
>
> A.A. Thought for the Day
> There is some alcoholic thought, conscious or unconscious, that
> comes before every slip. As long as we live, we must be on the
> lookout for such thoughts and guard against them. In fact, our A.A.
> training is mostly to prepare us, to make us ready to recognize such
> thoughts at once and to reject them at once. The slip comes when we
> allow such thoughts to remain in our minds, even before we actually
> go through the motions of lifting the glass to our lips. The A.A.
> program is largely one of mental training. How well is my mind
> prepared?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> Fret not your mind with puzzles that you cannot solve. The solutions
> may never be shown to you until you have left this life. The loss of
> dear ones, the inequality of life, the deformed and the maimed, and
> many other puzzling things may not be known to you until you reach
> the life beyond. "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
> cannot bear them now." Only step by step, stage by stage, can you
> proceed in your journey into greater knowledge and understanding.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may be content that things that I now see darkly will
> some day be made clear. I pray that I may have faith that someday I
> will see face to face.
>
> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 197
> 5, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA. Editor’s note: This bo
> ok was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group at Dayto
> na Beach, Florida.
>
> _________________
>
> The following is Excerpt No. 189 from As Bill Sees It : “Experiment
> ers”
>
> We agnostics liked A.A. all right, & were quick to say that
> it had done miracles. But we recoiled from meditation & prayer as
> obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain
> experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
>
> When we finally did experiment, & unexpected results
> followed, we felt different; in fact, we knew different; & so we
> were sold on meditation & prayer. & that, we have found, can happen
> to anybody who tries. It has been well said that "Almost the only
> scoffers at prayer are those who never tried it enough".
>
> Twelve & Twelve p-97
>
> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by
> Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc., 475 Riverside Drive, N
> ew York, NY 10115