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God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.

October 5, 2005

         Daily Reflections

        YESTERDAY'S BAGGAGE

          For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching
          becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he
          patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
          12 & 12, p. 88

          I have more than enough to handle today, without dragging along yesterday's baggage
          too.  I must balance today's books, if I am to have a chance tomorrow.  So I ask myself if
          I have erred and how I can avoid repeating that particular behavior.  Did I hurt anyone,
          did I help anyone, and why?  Some of today is bound to spill over into tomorrow, but most
          of it need not if I make an honest daily inventory.

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         Twenty-Four Hours A Day

          A.A. Thought For The Day

          Do I have any hard feelings about other group members or for any
          other A.A. group? Am I critical of the way a group member thinks or acts? Do I feel that
          another group is operating in the wrong way and do I broadcast it?  Or do I realize that all
          A.A. members, no matter what their limitations, have something to offer, some good,
          however little, that they can do for A.A. in spite of their handicaps? Do I believe that
          there is a place for all kinds of groups in A.A., provided they are following A.A. traditions,
          and that they can be effective even if I do not agree with their procedure?  Am I tolerant
          of people and groups?

          Meditation For The Day

          "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this
          time forth and even forever more." All your movements, your goings and comings can be
          guided by the Unseen Spirit. Every visit to help another, every unselfish effort to assist,
          can be blessed by that Unseen Spirit. There can be a blessing on all you do, on every
          interview with one who is suffering. Every meeting of a need may not be a chance
          meeting, but it may have been planned by the Unseen Spirit. Led by the Spirit of the
          Lord, you can be tolerant, sympathetic, and understanding of others and so accomplish
          much.

          Prayer For The Day

          I pray that I may be led by the spirit of God. I pray that the Lord will
          preserve my goings and my comings.

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        As Bill Sees It            
        
         Anger--Personal and Group Enemy, p. 98

             "As the book 'Alcoholics Anonymous' puts it, 'Resentment is the
             Number One offender.'  It is a primary cause of relapses into
             drinking.  How well we of A.A. know that for us 'To drink is
             eventually to go mad or die.'

             "Much the same penalty overhangs every A.A. group. Given enough
             anger, both unity and purpose are lost.  Given still more 'righteous'
             indignation, the group can disintegrate; it can actually die.  This is
             why we avoid controversy.  This is why we prescribe no punishments
             for any misbehavior, no matter how grievous.  Indeed, no alcoholic
             can be deprived of his membership for any reason whatever.

             "Punishment never heals.  Only love can heal."

             Letter, 1966

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        Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth Edition

Gratitude In Action

The story of Dave B., one of the founders of A.A. in Canada in 1944.

As I look back on it now, I did everything wrong, but at least I was thinking of somebody else instead of myself.  I had begun to get a little bit of something I am very full of now, and that is gratitude.  I was becoming increasingly grateful to the people in New York and to the God they referred to but whom I found difficult to reach.  (Yet I realized I had to seek the Higher Power I was told about.)

p. 197

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         Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Foreword

Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.  It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.  The Tradition section of this volume portrays in some detail the experience which finally produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.

p. 18

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        Give and forget. Receive and remember.

          When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.
          --Antoine De Saint-Exupery

          Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
          --Henry David Thoreau

          Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
          --Geoffry F. Abert

          "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It
          turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a
          feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
          brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
          --Melody Beattie

          "The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things
          you will have to express gratitude for."
          --Zig Ziglar

          When a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, they activate life around
          them positively and thereby attract positive results.  Positive Thinking sets in motion
          positive and creative forces and success flows toward you!
          --Norman Vincent Peale

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         Father Leo's Daily Meditation

          PRIDE

                                            "The books I haven't written are
                                              better than the books other
                                                   people have."
                                                  -- Cyril V. Connolly

          Today I still have to grapple with pride, vanity and conceit. Today, thanks to God and my
          spiritual program, I am not so preoccupied with self, but the old tapes can still be heard:
          "Thank God I am not as stupid as her." "I am blessed in not being like those people." "I
          suppose everybody in the room is looking at me."

          Pride is still a big obstacle because it keeps me isolated from people. It emphasizes the
          difference between me and the world, rather than the commonality. Pride keeps me a
          prisoner of my ego and develops that cruel and sadistic streak in my nature that I know
          exists. Pride stops me being grateful because it keeps me too focused on what I am doing
          and I miss the beauty and splendor of my life. Pride keeps my nose pushed against
          the picture so I cannot see the portrait!
 
          I can only change this "proudful" attitude by talking about it. The way for me to grow is
          to "dump it" . . . today.

          May I find me in the people I meet and share with.

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          "I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you
          throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your
          offspring after you."
          Genesis 17:7

          Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
          Philippians 4:4-5

          I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every           situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me                       strength.
          Philippians 4:12-13

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          Daily Inspiration

God will give you today, no more than you can handle today. It is when you choose to add yesterday's and tomorrow's troubles to it that it becomes too much to carry. Lord, help me remember that it is only right now that I can find all that I am looking for.

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We are not here to live a life of worry, guilt, or fear. Lord, may I reacquaint myself with the true meaning of living in the Lord.

Ask and you shall receive,
Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7

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