Subject: Re: Today, Monday, August 9, 2010
From: "Paul" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:45:12 -0400

Great to hear - I loved taking my kids abroad

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>  
wrote:

> Thanks  . Arrived in Copenhagen. All is well- having a great time  
> with girls.
>
> R. Hunter Biden
> 202-333-1880
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Paul <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Have a safe trip...
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> Date: August 9, 2010 12:19:17 PM EDT
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>>> Subject: Fwd: Today, Monday, August 9, 2010
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>>> Subj: Today, Monday, August 9, 2010
>>>
>>> August 9:    When you ask God to change you, you must at the same  
>>> time fully trust Him.
>>> This is August, the 8th month of the year;
>>> •        The 8th Tradition:  Alcoholics Anonymous should remain  
>>> forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ spec 
>>> ial workers.
>>> •        The 8th Step:  Made a list of all persons we had harmed 
>>> , and became willing to make amends to them all.
>>> •        The 8th Promise:  Self-seeking will slip away.
>>> __________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought for the Day
>>> “We have an allergy to alcohol.  The action of alcohol on chroni 
>>> c alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy.  We allergic type 
>>> s can never safely use alcohol in any form at all.  We cannot be 
>>>  reconciled to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience  
>>> an entire psychic change.  Once this psychic change has occurred 
>>> , we who seemed doomed, we who had so many problems that we desp 
>>> aired of ever solving them, find ourselves able to control our d 
>>> esire for alcohol.”  Have I had a psychic change?
>>>
>>> Meditation for the Day
>>> Ask God in daily prayer to give you the strength to change.  When  
>>> you ask God to change you, you must at the same time fully trust  
>>> Him.  If you do not fully trust Him, God may answer your prayer as  
>>> a rescuer does that of a drowning person who is putting up too  
>>> much of a struggle.  The rescuer must firs render the person still  
>>> more helpless, until he or she is wholly at the rescuer’s mercy. 
>>>   Just so must we be wholly at God’s mercy before we can be resc 
>>> ued.
>>>
>>> Prayer for the Day
>>> I pray that I may be daily willing to be changed.  I pray that I  
>>> may put myself wholly at the mercy of God.
>>>
>>> Source: Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Richmond Walker, Copyright © 19 
>>> 75, Hazeldon Foundation, printed in the USA.   Editor’s note: Th 
>>> is book was compiled by Richmond Walker (1892–1965) of the Group 
>>>  at Daytona Beach, Florida. I get the text from the following we 
>>> bsite:  http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/0403EN.htm Note 4 number 
>>> s after “h24/”: the first two are the day of the month and the s 
>>> econd two are the month.  Example:  To get daily reading for Dec 
>>> ember 21st, you would change the URL to   http://www.anonymityone.com/h24/2112EN.htm
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>>>
>>> A reading from The Eye Opener, another Hazeldon publication that  
>>> contains meditations in pocket-book form for August 8th:
>>>
>>> Some of us wear our AA like we wear our clothes, entirely as  
>>> external adornment and protection, and to hide what is underneath.
>>>
>>> There are many, however, who wear their AA in such a way that the  
>>> AA way of living is so predominant in their appearance that all  
>>> other apparel is unnoticed.  To see such a person, the reaction is  
>>> not to observe a gray suit or a blue dress, but a personality that  
>>> radiates a character made beautiful by the simple code of living  
>>> as found in Twelve Steps.
>>>
>>> For me personally, I need to think about whether I am at risk  
>>> because I am not doing enough to make the twelve steps part of my  
>>> being.  At the same time--I need to remind myself:   thought left  
>>> hanging without action is a passive choice for inaction and for me  
>>> inaction may not necessarily be a bad choice.
>>>
>>> I need to ask myself repeatedly throughout the day:  Are the  
>>> choices I am making working for me?
>>> ...................And then there’s Bobby Lyon’s advice:  
>>> “Don’t think; Go to meetings; Pray; Call your sponsor; and  
>>> Don’t drink.�=9