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From: billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.recovery
Subject: Thought for the Day
Message-ID: <1336@serene.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 08:01:04 GMT
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Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, California
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From the Day at a Time book
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January 18 -- Reflection for the Day

If we are determined to stop drinking or using other chemicals, there
must be no reservations whatsoever, nor any lurking notion that our
allergy of the body and obsession of the mind will some day reverse
themselves.  Our regeneration comes through the splendid paradox of
the Twelve Steps: Strength arises from complete defeat, and the loss
of one's old life is a condition for finding a new one.  ** Am I
convinced that in powerlessness, Power comes?  Am I certain that by
releasing my life and will, I am released? ** 


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Today I Pray

May I know power through powerlessness, victory through surrender,
triumph through defeat.  May I learn to relinquish any trace of
secret pride that I can "do it by myself."  Let my will be absorbed
and steered by the omnipotent will of God.


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Today I Will Remember

Let go and let God.


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