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    A New Year

    A new year. This started more than a decade ago. While growing up my step daughter had a friend Viki that spent a lot of time at our home. Home for her was an alcoholic mother and a long string of her mothers boyfriends that were varying shades of crap. Viki at times just lived at our...
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    A very grateful alcoholic

    I am insistent that a person is not yet doing the twelve steps of AA until they are actively carrying the message to another drunk. Anything less than sitting there face to face sharing the experience of the steps and helping the new guy through, is just not enough. When we do this face to...
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    Im so baffled by how doing good things for others can really help me spiritually.

    "Im so baffled by how doing good things for others can really help me spiritually." --- That was the question. Here is my answer. I would love to hear more on the subject. -------------------------------- There is a legendary comedy bit by Bill Cosby from back in the 60's where Bill...
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    One day at a time.

    One day at a time is a tenant of the AA program that goes through something of a metamorphosis as you work the program. In the early days of sobriety one day at a time is something of a party trick to get through a few white knuckle days. However, the AA program is about more than just...
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    Fr.Mychal Judge

    "Lord, take me where you want me to go, let me meet who you want me to meet, tell me what you want me to say, and keep me out of your way." - Fr.Mychal Judge, a Franciscan Priest, member of Alcoholics Anonymous and the first recorded casualty of 9-11.
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    The first half of the first step.

    First a good look at this disease and the approach made with alcoholics anonymous. The first step of AA; We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. Now I break this step down into two sections first being; "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol"...
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    step 6&7

    At the temple Christ asks the paralyzed man "do you want to be made well?". (John 5) At first blush this seems like a stupid question. Of course he wants to be made well, he's been paralyzed for 38 years, who wouldn't want to be made well. Then I ran square into the steps and the genius of...
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    A drunk wakes up in the bottom of a deep dark hole.

    A drunk wakes up in the bottom of a deep dark hole. Someone walks by outside, he holler out for help. The person stops and it's a politician. The drunk asks for help. The politician promises to ban holes if elected and to subsidize ladder sales. The drunk thanks him for trying, the...
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