Subject: Fwd: Today, Friday, December 3, 2010
From: "Paul" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 15:02:41 -0500

Great to talk with you bro - let's talk again tomorrow

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> 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