The Big Book promises before we’re halfway through Step Nine the Promises will come true! I want that! I want to be amazed! I want a new freedom and a new happiness. I don’t want to forget the past or […]
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Petty Does Not Become You
They failed to coddle you, to make sure you were content, that your needs were being met. They considered a hundred other folks, believed the setting invited your request for extra help. You grew your resentment, well fertilized, tended with […]
Continue reading »At the End
We carefully work the Steps, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Then Ten, Eleven and Twelve… continuing the first ten. But at the end of the Steps, we’re spreading the message, increasing the fellowship and newcomers […]
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…it is not enough to want to be rid of the unpleasant side effects of my illness. I need to be willing to give up that which attracts me in the first place: the gratification, sedation or whatever other payoff […]
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When fear enters in, I remind myself that God did not give me the spirit of fear. In my quiet time I hear, “Fear not!” ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 3760-3761). Paul told his protege Timothy, “For God has […]
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