God says, “It’s got to be my flag, I don’t salute anybody’s flag.” (I can’t figure out where I copied this from, but probably something on the radio.) Respect is earned, merited, tied to the recipient — what they’ve done […]
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Phony Respectability
Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil. This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 30. […]
Continue reading »Receiving Grace
The love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore us to sanity. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 31. Grace, the gift […]
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin Seeing through a glass darkly. […]
Continue reading »Tests and Testimony
You can’t have a testimony without a test. ~ NPR interview about The Sisterhood The Big Book says the drunk’s past becomes the whole family’s asset — the main one, a treasure. Kneeling at the porcelain altar, drunken driving, brawls, […]
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