Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Location 983). They come to the Rooms of Recovery, identify, find a community, comfort, hope. Then […]
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What Do You See?
“There’s something Cezanne said that I think about a lot, something like, ‘I know what I am looking at, but what am I seeing?’ That’s what reviewing feels like to me. It’s very much to ‘re-view,’ to see again, to […]
Continue reading »The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonyous
It’s called the Big Book, classic aid for all who look to substitutes to guide their lives, as food or drink betray their user’s hopeless flailing far and wide. The truth resides in simple Steps set out in eight score […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »In the Beginning
They’re in order these Steps. To begin we figure out we’re powerless over food, our lives are unmanageable. In other words, we can’t. We move to God can, and we decide to let him. After that it falls into place, […]
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