Dear God, please help me set aside everything I think I know so I may have an open mind and a new experience. Please help me see the Truth. Amen. ~ one version of The Set Aside Prayer I know […]
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What God Erases
We make mistakes, but sin requires deliberate trespass against a law set by an authority and held by community. God asks us to repent. Do not intensify what God simply erases. ~ Jo Helen Cox What God erases. Like a […]
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6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. The sixth step, miniscule in direct coverage, verbiage, in the Big Book. One little paragraph, restating willingness is indispensable, a couple of questions, a what-if answer, and […]
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Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 It’s right there, the Big Book dare. You doubt it? Fine! Prove it wrong. Thoroughly follow our path! How, you ask? Admit you’re […]
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…the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 62) Selfish! How bad can […]
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