A lot of people don’t have their own truth python what they have is their own opinion, their own agenda (disguised as their own truth).

For example, when you lock your car by hitting the button on your key, make sure you do it consciously so you’re not wondering a 1/2 an hour later in a meeting whether you launch your car.

God says that the 2 main issues human beings have with one another is that they either have more than you do or they are a better person than you are.

We learned to build trust in God by trusting in God. We learned to build patients by… We build big biceps by doing curls not by doing squats.

I don’t get angry because I don’t have a million dollars in the bank there’s in the bank come or because I don’t drive a big fancy car-I get angry because people don’t love.

Some people climb into their vehicles and a different personality emerges.

There’s a little sand locked down the street from where II live that used to be calm year after years sand blows from the West, and seemingly the depth or level of that law never seems to change seems to change-how is that?

Jesus said the worst thing about being down here on the Earth is not being loved. The 2nd worst thing, not being understood. Being misunderstood in every possible way.

Again I will reiterate calm the reason most of us are so lonely is that we leave our so called nest of love, go out into the world for 8 or 10 hours A-day, lead loveless lives during that period, and then return back to our so called love nest at the end of the day starving for love. Many of us don’t even receive it within the home. Any wonder we turn to drugs and spend our entire lives at the office…

Time and space can best be characterized or defined as thus calm the time we are together with those we love and the time we are apart from those we love.

This is nothing new, but a lot of people have the attitude that as long as they’re simply surrounded by their circle of people… who needs the rest of the world? If you surround yourself with people who think like you how can you grow and learn anything?

Speak softly -alot of people from my home stats I’ve noticed tend to be very loud -including myself.

…Now then, you can probably achieve things with different motives and presumably come up with the same result. I posed the question in a previous post; can you do something different ways and achieve the same result? However, God may not look upon it, you, in necessarily the same light! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT REASON ALWAYS ACHIEVES OPTIMAL RESULTS -ON ALL LEVELS! Physical, Spiritual…

There’s always somebody out there… willing to listen to “The Truth”. You notice I said “The Truth” not my truth, or your truth… lower-case…

It was just brought to my attention that you can do things differently andifferently and achieve the same result-individuality I believe if an individuality I believe is what they call it. People with Alcoholics Anonymous say say there are different ways of working this program. Perhaps so, but you still have to work the steps with honesty and vigilance. Humility and.. Provided certain tenements, or requisites are met!

Many people seemingly like the ability, or willingness to like others who seemingly don’t like them. To care about others who seemingly don’t care about them -from a certain perspective, I suppose I too am guilty of this.

From a certain perspective, the 2nd step in alcohol to non of his 12 steps is somewhat misleading. It implies by saying “…a God of our own understanding” that there are different or multiple Gods.

God says we should be there even for the people who seemingly don’t want what we have to offer-who seemingly don’t know what no would they themselves want to even need.

Some people seemingly lack the ability, or willingness when surrounded by others, to cease forming an opinion” of others.

*judging others is always preceded by a informed or uninformed opinion of others!

I’m in awe of people with years of sobriety say “I don’t know what God’s will for me is”. Well, what I’ve learned through the years is that God doesn’t always give us “the answers” no matter how badly we want them to come. I know a person in this room who for months was looking for answers from God in certain areas of their life who stated repeatedly, that the direction they were hoping for still hadn’t come..As I intimated previously, it is my experience that God doesn’t always make decisions for us -He wants to see just how far come insofar as our thinking, insofar as what lay in the deepest recesses of out soul -a willingness be as He would have us be. “He doesn’t always tell us what to do, but He gives us principles to operate from once we do -for better or for worse.** 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

**No matter what choice we make, WE CAN ALWAYS BRING GOD INTO IT -VIA THE PRINCIPLES! Via our 💕 being in the right place.

The two hardest things for an Alcoholic to do:

1.Do what we need to do;

2.Accept what we get as God’s Will (most Alcoholics tend to feel short-changed on their effort or investment)

It takes great strength to endure year-after-year, the lashing alcohol hands us, use that same strength, that same resolve, that same stubbornness in your recovery!

I become -by the decisions I make and follow thru on!

TRUST IN GOD, like any other relationship takes time -and effort -and TRUST lol 😉

Some people learn how to survive on their own-without friendships..

Baseball…

Everything can be defined or calculated with a number.

Everything in the universe exists within a percentage! 0%, 1%, 2%, all the way up to a 100%. Ranging from never (not yet) to continuously.

What is the greatest event in each year -going through history? What is the greatest event throughout history -in each day of the year?

The strength of The Bible, the merit of The Bible does not rest upon some secret code that can only be deemed supernatural in origin – or for me, even Jesus resurrection. It’s merit stands first-and-foremost upon the supernatural message contained within it’s pages! The teachings, laid right in our laps which so many take for granted, dismiss, refute…

Anytime there appears to be conclusive evidence of anything that holds power to rock the 🌎, effect attitudes and beliefs -THEY DO NOT REMAIN IRREFUTABLE 🙄 FOR VERY LONG -SOMEONE ALWAYS SHOWS UP WITH A COUNTER-ARGUMENT EVERY TIME -SATAN WOULDN’T BE DOING HIS JOB IF IT WERE OTHERWISE! THIS PATTERN UNFORTUNATELY -SEEMS TO KEEP MUCH OF THE WORLD IN LOCK-STEP! IN LIMBO! SHAKES HIS HEAD:

You name it, there are two sides to every story. Maybe the stories themselves are a mere stalling point? There is something here that I cannot remember…

I’m watching this show on Tubi called :Bible revelations: The sacred codes… Everything looks great in the beginning, it’s got my attention, they slip in a few commercials here and there, and then comes the hook. The whole thing is flawed, stopped the presses it’s not really what we thought it was… the only ones that ever win are the people putting on the show and getting a paycheck. It doesn’t matter if it’s lock ness, the abominable Snowman, sasquatch comsasquatch, Mary had a little lamb.. It’s a.. It’s the same thing over and over – They start out by gathering your attention, they put commercials in which they get paid for, they get the ratings up, and then they walk off leaving you scratching your head thinking is it true or not? They leave you with proof over here for, and proof over here against -they get paid and that seems to be the only constant in this universe. Man trying to survive, man trying to prosper! I AM SO SICK OF THIS ROUTINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The message is always this; we’re alone in the universe; there’s no God out there to save us; the only thing that’s proof positive is that there are people in the world that are more powerful than you and me; and if we do not snap to the status quo; they’ll put a hurting on us; so we’d better follow their rules or else… SOS

This just in: Look at it another way, maybe God wants followers based on faith rather than based on proof-maybe this is the way God wants it to be, maybe this is the way God intended it to be. Or maybe God simply has a solution to all this skepticism and madness.

“For those who believe – no proof is necessary. For those who do not believe -no proof is possible.”

And one of my personal favorites:

“Better to believe in God -and discover there isn’t one. Then to disbelieve in God -and discover there is one.”

Well then, if there’s irrefutable evidence that “the great rabbi experimentc is tainted, even hoaxed. Let me give you another piece of irrefutable evidence -THE BIBLE, AND IT’S DESCRIPTION OF MAN’S NATURE (which includes, but is not limited to, this going back and forth between the truth and the lie -leaving people stumped). They were doing this very same thing back in Jesus’s day when he would sit there and work a miracle right before their very eyes. Casting doubt over and over and over. If they couldn’t refute the miracle then they would refute the source of the miracle.

Another flaw in any human argument is that -many of us hate to be proved wrong (Especially those high-falutin educational types with a reputation on the line) and we will fight tooth and nail to prove our point -even when we ourselves know we are wrong!

Jesus could come down from the clouds and strike a thunderbolt whithunderbolt which would create a crevasse in the Earth 10 miles wide – And with in a matter of days or weeks, the greatest scientist and psychiatrist of the world would be citing mass hallucination blue senation and some natural phenomenon explaining the split in the Earth’s crust. This is how foolish people are. A mass hallucination and a once in a lifetime natural phenomenon all at the same time huh -idiots! We’re surrounded by IDIOTS!!!!*

*Hey, if a person doesn’t want to believe in the supernatural existence of God and all these signs, that’s up to them! But there’s about 5 to 10 million people walking around on this planet who have received relief from one addiction or another through a 12 step program founded on the premise that there is a benign, loving God which belies all things! Another irrefutable fact of life is this, 31 years and 8 months ago I could not stop drinking and doing drugs if my life depended on it -and it did! I came in to alcohol tsunami’s, set in on numerous meetings and the merciless obsession was removed – Just as they said it would, just like it had been done to millions before me 🙏. The founders of the 12 step program said that God-made these things possible.. If you’ve got a better explanation I’m not interested in it. I BELIEVE AND NOTHING YOU CAN SAY WILL CHANGE THAT!!!

BTW -the mass hallucination argument can be used both ways!

Before I even got halfway through the documentary, I was thinking to myself -what, are they gonna say that these prophecies prophecies are in all kinds of books? That would be the number one way to discredit the Torah and The Bible right? Wrong! There’s a flip side to that coin! They’re saying that prophecies are popping up in all sorts of works of literature. That even a song by Vanilla Ice prophesied 911. Well what that tells me is that God’s truth is everywhere! He’s reaching out to us from every possible venue!

People tend to approach conspiracy theories from the wrong perspective:

1. Who tends to gain from them if they are true?

2. There’s always a plan hidden in a conspiracy. – A plan which involves a certain person or group prospering, avoiding, or both!

3. And if that plan doesn’t apply in the past tense, comma there’s always the possibility of it occurring in the future tense – Conspiracy theories like anything else are a truth being told, or a model for man to exploit to his, or her advantage! In rare cases, they amount to nothing at all. But why waste a good conspiracy!

I do not know if there is an equal number of ways to do something right as there are ways to do it wrong. I guess that just depends on what outcome you’re looking for. But if you are looking for a specific outcome…. Then the answer has to be that there’s only there’s only one calm or 2, or 3…. How many different ways can you do something and produce the same outcome I should ask? Specifically? Roughly? I do know this, we get things wrong and awful lot if we’re talking about (seeking out) a specific outcome. That being the case -should we be surprised at how much error there is in the 🌎 ?

I’m sort of getting to a place where I’m forgetting forgetting whether I’ve listed some things on things on the side or not. But who am I to question question why this phenomenon is taking place. Maybe God wants it there multiple times:

Is it possible for something to be at two places at the same time?

Is it possible for two things to exist in the same place at the same time?

As previously stated, if they serve a useful purpose according to God -than the answer iis an emphatical yes! Are there speeds attainable beyond the speed of light – If they serve a useful purpose according to God -then the answer is an empghtical yes

Principles such as rebellion and defiance are not spiritual principles high virtual principles -they are character defects.

Write down a list of all the spiritual principles you can think of and then look up their antonym and place them in a separate column left or right of the 1st list. In there you will find (among other things) the principles by which sober Alcoholics live and the principles by which non-sober Alcoholics die.

Some people have learned the fine art of conflict de-escalation while others have homed their skills in the area of conflict escalation.

Some people hardly know the meaning of the term conflict from an experiential vantage point strictly. I on the other hand, have been through thousands of conflicts with humanity. And that is no joke. Thousands (5 maybe 10) -seems almost unfathomable, when you think about a number like that coupled with the term conflict. The sad thing about it is -that I don’t even come close to holding the record. I wish that were untrue.* 😔

And my grandmother -all the unhappiness, grief I caused her.

*If you knew what my childhood was like between 1970 and 1980 alone.

Do you suppose that someday they’ll make an ink that -with a specific technology, will allow us to able to see inside of a book, folder… and read what’s in it without having to access it physically?*

If I hear someone speaking, my 1st priority is to determine if it has merit, and if it is beneficial – If the answer is yes to both, then it makes no difference who’s doing the speaking. If it’s one or the other only 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

🤔 Some people have such incredible integrity that to undergo a certain experience: where others may dismiss it, minimize, even rationalize it -these people internalize the experience so deeply -it is absolutely incredible to observe a human-being capable of fully….

Sometimes we do things that seem insignificant at the moment, not even anything worth significantly benefiting or profiting by, and:

1. It could leave a lasting negative impression on an individual

2. That individual could then spread the perception of that experience with you to others

All seemingly form… and to what end? At the bookstore for example, I try to save a few extra bucks. Next time I go in come these young people are looking at me and dealing with me like they’re on guard -see what I mean? They start making comments about pricing, as if they were trying to beat me to the punch this time. People pick up on things -and it changes their behavior what can I say?

When I have an issue a store, something mispriced, a return… certain employees act as if the money’s coming out of their pocket -while others, not at all.

🤔Some Allcoholics have only their alcoholic-mind to guide them in terms of a God of their own understanding -The God of my own understanding is the God that has had tens of thousands of pages written about Him. The God that I started out with in life is the God I ended up with in Alcoholics Anonymous.

If you think about it, the 1st gods we encounter in life are the adults who are surrounded by -giants in their own right. Then of course, we should throw in the fact that we’re totally helpless and dependent on these giants. Some of them are gentle giants while some not so much. Some of them are quite sane while others not so much Some of them are quite sane while others not so much. With such a mixture surrounding us-is it any wonder that we have such confusion about this thing called God? Such mixed emotions? And then there are those who tried to explain to us who God is. Amidst the various perceptions deluding the facts…. By the time we’re old enough to understand the meaning of the words, the melees of experiences and examples we’ve been surrounded by to that point – Let’s just say many of us are worse off -more confused than when we started. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ Now comes the hard part -unraveling… Getting to the truth of it all! Thankfully, God understands all of this MORE THAN WE KNOW. 😊

*From 20 or more years ago

How are philosophers and scientists spoken of throughout history -in the hear-and-now? 🤔

And how are religious figures spoken of throughout history -in the hear-and-now?

I believe that in certain instances, religious figures have brought as much to the improvement of mankind, if not more than philosophers and scientists alike; And yet, their place in man’s history; their very existence; is often spoken of with great skepticism.

Bill Wilson States that we must grow each day spiritually. Which to me means 1st and foremost -coming to know the one true God. Sure, we start out with a God of our own understanding -but over time we must come to know this God intimately – allowing to fall away all the misconceptions, all the of the facets based upon fear, and illusion.

Tell me something; within these writings -do you see bread, or do you see stones? Do you see pearls, or do you see dung?

The women in our family have chosen to give biblical names to their children. Of course they are always the heroes and the saints…. May these children grow up to be worthy of the names that have been chosen for them. Josiah, Tierza, Liara…

Why did God create Alcoholics? It was the only way he could get mankind of practice spiritual principles.

This so called punishing God -for all the horrible things we alcoholics and drug addicts bring into the world -God gives us THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. Our penance is simply to do the things we should have been doing all along -and nothing more. The 12 steps are for people who have lost the natural ability -due to extreme arrogance and self-centeredness- to have a relationship with God as originally intended. THAT WHICH DOES NOT (OR NO LONGER) COME NATURALLY -REQUIRES A CONSCIOUS EFFORT 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

I don’t know which part of The Bible or true -I only know that if God said, it’s true!

When I 1st came to Alcoholics Anonymous I was asked if I believed there was a God – My response was this, “I don’t know if there is one but I hope there is one!”

The other question I was asked was whether I was willing to believe…? – My response was this, “I don’t know, but I believe in the power of good.”