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> From: NewParadigmFund@aol.com
> Date: December 7, 2010 10:31:29 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Tuesday, Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 2010
>

> Subj: Today, Tuesday, Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 2010
>
> December 7–Pearl Harbor Day–a significant day for drunks with
> their own personal “Pearl Harbor” day. Back in the day, some
> drunks referred to this day as “let’s get bombed day!”(thank
> you Jill!). DD says he was first introduced to “Kamikazes” on
> this day! This was followed by upgrading to the more expensive B-52
> s. Keep coming back! (Personal note–DD is one of the people I need
> to see coming thru the doors–very important person in my sobriety)
>
> 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
>
> When people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the temptation is
> strong to say nothing about it. No other A.A. member should force
> them to declare themselves. It is entirely up to them. If they are
> well grounded in A.A., they will realize that its up to them to
> speak up at the next meeting and tell about their slip. There is no
> possible evasion of this duty, if they are thoroughly honest and
> really desirous of living the A.A. way again. When they have done
> it, their old confidence returns. They are home again. Their slip
> should not be mentioned again by others. They are again a good
> member of A.A. Am I tolerant of other people's mistakes?
>
> Meditation for the Day
>
> It is in the union of a soul with God that strength, new life,
> and spiritual power come. Bread sustains the body but we cannot live
> by bread alone. To try to do the will of God is the meat and support
> of true living. We feed on that spiritual food. Soul starvation
> comes from failing to do so. The world talks about bodies that are
> undernourished. What of the souls that are undernourished? Strength
> and peace come from partaking of spiritual food.
>
> Prayer for the Day
>
> I pray that I may not try to live by bread alone. I pray that my
> spirit may live by trying to do the will of God as I understand it.
>
>
> 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.
> _________________
> The following is Excerpt No. 71 from As Bill Sees It : “ ‘How
> Can You Roll With a Punch?’ ”
> On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our
> country, a great friend of A.A. was walking along a St. Louis
> street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic but he had
> been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in his city.
> Because many of his usually sober friends had already taken to their
> bottles that they might blot out the implications of the Pearl
> Harbor disaster, Father Ed was anguished by the thought that his
> cherished A.A. group would probably do the same.
>
> Then a member, sober less than a year, stepped alongside &
> engaged Father Ed in a spirited conversation - mostly about A.A.
> Father Ed saw with relief, that his companion was perfectly sober.
>
> How is it that you have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor?
> How can you roll with
> a punch like that?
>
> "Well", replied the yearling, "each of us in A.A. has
> already had his own private Pearl Harbor. So why should we drunks
> crack up over this one?"
> Grapevine January 1962
>
> 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