4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. ~ Step 4 Well, sure, it’s important. Folks need to figure out how messed up their lives are, and then delve in and realize they did it to themselves. You […]
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Give a Dime
If you only have a dime, you contribute that dime, and then you give more to cover those who don’t even have a dime. ~ Jhe T’s first sponsor Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. […]
Continue reading »The Guilt Dump Dream
When amends have been made, lessons learned, responsibility nurtured, maturation triggered…still, guilt lingers. For years. Decades, lifetimes, and beyond… guilt converges, amasses, amalgamates, melds like plastic peanuts in a land dump, perpetual, imperishable, perdurable. Useless. Toxic. Malignant. Pernicious. Toxic waste […]
Continue reading »Last Chance
She came in with a persistent sore. They weighed her on the freight scales because nothing else could do the job. Over seven hundred fifty. Her doctor was out, she talked to another, covering his cases. He said, “We can’t […]
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Simple as uncarved wood. ~ Tao Te Ching They say the steps are simple. Not easy. They’re not easy because we want to mess with them, to interpret them, to clarify them, to improve them. They take commitment, surrender, dedication, […]
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