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Today’s “Pay Forward” gift is - Let Down Your Bucket. There is a story in Around the Year with Emmet Fox that encourages me to keep on sharing A.A.’s way of life. A party of shipwrecked sailors was drifting in an open boat on the Atlantic Ocean. They had no water, and were suffering agonies from thirst. Another small boat came within hailing distance, and when the shipwrecked mariners cried out for water, the newcomers said, and “let down your bucket.” This sounded like cruel mockery. However, when the advice was repeated several times, one of the sailors dipped the bucket overboard and drew up clear, fresh, sparkling water! For days, they had been sailing through freshwater and did not know it. They were out of sight of land, but off the estuary of the Amazon, which carries freshwater many miles out to sea. I found some 125 miracles in the first 164 pages of the Big Book by keeping on keeping on – [www.12stepworkbook.org ] – The Promises Inventory. We may not know how these miracles keep coming; they just do. At times, we may only watch the process. Maybe the best we can do, sometimes is to stay in contact with Alcoholics Anonymous, and let our bucket down. Our Father will fill our bucket; the amount we will receive depends upon the size of our bucket. Thy Love, Thy Will be done.