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> Date: January 23, 2012 11:14:59 AM EST
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> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, January 23, 2012
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> Subj: Today, Monday, January 23, 2012
> January 23: We always have the option to drink; we don’t because daily acceptance of a higher power in our lives and working the Program have enabled us to make the right decision.
> This is January, the 1st month of the year;
> • The 1st Tradition: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
> • The 1st Step: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
> • The 1st Promise: If we are painstaking about this phase [Steps 8 & 9] of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
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> A.A. Thought for the Day
> Alcoholics are people whose drinking got them into a "blind alley." They haven't been able to learn anything from their drinking experiences. They are always making the same mistakes and suffering the same consequences over and over again. They refuse to admit they're alcoholic. They still think they can handle the stuff. They won't swallow their pride and admit that they're different from ordinary drinkers. They won't face the fact that they must spend the rest of their lives without liquor. They can't visualize life without ever taking a drink. Am I out of this blind alley?
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> Meditation for the Day
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> I believe that God has all power. It is His to give and His to withhold. But He will not withhold it from the person who dwells near Him, because then it passes insensibly from God to that person. It is breathed in by the person who lives in God's presence. I will learn to live in God's presence and then I will have those things which I desire of Him: strength, power, and joy. God's power is available to all who need it and are willing to accept it.
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> Prayer for the Day
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> I pray that I may get myself out of the way, so that God's power may flow in. I pray that I may surrender myself to that power.
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> 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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> The following is Excerpt No. 4 from As Bill Sees It : “Can We Choose?”
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> We must never be blinded by the futile philosophy that we are just the hapless victims of our inheritance, of our life experience, & of our surroundings - that these are the sole forces that make our decisions for us. This is not the road to freedom. We have to believe that we can really choose.
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> Grapevine, November 1960
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> As active alcoholics, we lost our ability to choose whether we would drink. We were the victims of a compulsion, which seemed to decree that we must go on with our own destruction.
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> Yet we finally did make choices that brought about our recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, & a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice A.A.'s twelve steps.
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> In short, we chose to "become willing" & no better choice did we ever make.
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> letter 1966
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> As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life); copyright © 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ®
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