Some people have a higher power they tell what to do.

The only suggestion is that it be a power greater than yourself and, a power that can solve your problem.

When I started out, god was a piece of paper with a lime drawn down the middle -on the top,, one side read “what god is” and the other side “what God isn’t”. Today…well, I ended up with the same God my grandmother introduced me to.

Bill W. stated, “We realize we know very little… More will be revealed…” Today… let me say this, several years ago I told a friend who maybe had 3-4 years sober at the time. I told her “I’m no longer interested in a god of my own understanding nor liking, nor choosing,, nor wishing… (because Alcoholics Anonymous specifically states that the problem of the alcoholic centers in the mind)… I’m interested in seeing God as He is, not as I would have Him be!”

You know what the difference between the truth and a lie is… Your dying of a deadly disease and… One Doctor advises you to…

If your worst enemy had the cure for your dying child…

I don’t know what world you’re living in -but the world I’m living in is the same one described in The Bible and an alcoholic synonymous call economist-people are selfish.

When I 1st came into Alcoholics Anonymous nobody was walking up to me and shaking my hand and asking me out to coffee.. Then one day I decided to walk into a meeting and to go down the road and shake everybody’s hand everybody’s hand. I did that at several meetings in succession until I realized certain people weren’t interested in shaking my hand.. People I hardly knew, let alone ever did anything hurtful to.

Something dawned on me after several years in Alcoholics Anonymous, after several years of unhappiness “I think we’re all living in the same world, so why do some people seem happier than others?” A lot of it is the way you look at things. A lot of it has to do with the choices we make. And a lot of it has to do with “what we focus on, we give power to!”

•Title credited to Cat Stevens -song written and recorded by him.

God pointed out to me some decades ago that everything in life has a lifeline. I realized many many years ago that I was fueling my anger from my childhood childhood with thoughts in the present – with the nature of those thoughts.

Recently, in counseling I recognized that many of my thoughts, my negativity towards (certain) human beings was fueling/building a wall that I keep up (higher at certain times (following…) than others) to protect myself based upon fear, or lack of faith rather.

“It’s impossible to get angry when you have no anger in you.”

Another thing He told me: “It’s easier not to take out your anger on those around you when you’re no longer filled with it..” I tried for years in Alcoholics Anonymous to contain my anger – that went about as well as not drinking by my own willpower.

Anger is the result of something bad/unjust happening to us -and the inability or unwillingness to accept it. God told me many years ago that “acceptance is not approval”. If I have a flat tire and I refuse to accept that fact… That car will either sit there flat for a very long time or I will decide to do something about it. And that’s the same thing same with anger. Unfortunately, many people decide not to do anything about it -so they remain angry. If you do something to hurt me and I’m unable to run willing to confront you with it -I may just pass it on to the next person I see or meet. This happens all the time!

•Title taken from the movie of the same name starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson. Written by David S Dorfman. Directed by Peter Siegal.

Sidenote: I may have mentioned this previously -imagine an army of men free from anger! Could there be a reason or useful purpose for anger in our society, in our world even though it is so much of an issue is an issue domestically speaking. Serrving 2 masters are we???

Of one thing I am absolutely certain of -Jesus was/is far more interested in the solution than in the problem! I cannot say that has always been my attitude/approach. 😒

After a counseling session (90s), I would have to come home and do dishes -and I would get so angry while doing so. I reasoned that the year that I live with my aunt Uncle, karma myself and the girls had to do the dishes to the dishes while my uncle’s son didn’t. During these episodes later in life God pointed out to me “Be grateful I have something to dirty them with.” 🙏

God told me this a long time ago: “It’s easier to act sane when you are sane. Thru many episodes in my recovery recovery I’ve experienced periods of lucidity and periods of insanity depending on how much or how little dedication to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

•Title taken from the movie of the same name starring Jack Nicholson (1975) -Miloš Forman (Director), Lawrence Hauben/Bo Goldman (screenplay).