2 things:

1. Never forget where you came from;

2. Wherever you go in life -NEVER, EVER FORGET WHAT GOT YOU THERE (good or bad!)!

Many-an-Alcoholic, and many people who came out of “The Great-Depression” share one common mistake:

When life got better they either stopped doing what got them their (in the case of the Alcoholic) or, they failed to “Pass It On” (<-interesting turn-of-phrase for non-alcoholics) to their children. In the case of those coming out of the tremendous struggle during “The Great-Depression”, they failed to pass-on to their children… when they said, “My children are not going to grow up, and go thru what my generation went thru” they essentially took away the struggles -> that build the type of character -> this great country was founded upon! And you end up with what we see now:

•Grown adults -twenty and thirty-somethings living at home with their parents (whatever happened to wanting to get out of the house, so you can have your own freedom, and your own privacy, make a family of your own);

•They want to start at the top (in many, but not in all cases), as opposed to the bottom -and work their way up (no longer willing to pay their dues).

Well 🤔, I’ll just say this, for those of you who are non-believers, If there really is no such thing as a God, and therefore no such thing as a 👹 then that means -all we’re doing to this 🌍, all we’re doing to each other -WE’RE DOING IT ALL ON OUR OWN COMPLETELY VOLUNTARILY. AND THAT IN ITSELF IS MORE FRIGHTENING, AND MORE SHAMEFUL, THAN ANY 👹 DREAMED UP IN THE BIBLE -FOR WHATEVER REASON 🙄 YOU WANT TO IMAGINE!

Many relationships on this planet would be dramatically rearranged, shuffled IF WHAT WE PLACED AS CRITERIA FOR SELECTION WERE MORE ON A SPIRITUAL PLANE.

Most alcoholics are crazy as all hell -in one sense or another (by the time they reach the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous) -so, if you don’t get asked to be a sponsor, DON’T FEEL TOO BAD 😆

INSIDE-OUTSIDE (LEAVE ME ALONE)

Now turn it inside-out and tell me what you see?

Tell a man what he wants to hear-and he thinks you’re his friend.

Tell a man what he doesn’t want to hear-and he thinks you’re his enemy.

There’s a difference between having problems and being the problem.

A lot of people in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous don’t realize that once you take away the booze and the drugs, you (and I) now get to deal with all the problems in life sober people have been dealing with all along.

Sidenote: Some men feel so incredibly confident in their masculinity that they have seemingly no problem engaging engaging in… While other men seem so incredibly frail in their masculinity that they ridicule other men for doing things only a man who feels quite confident in his own masculinity might think of doing (Ray at S@S crocheting).

Macy’s and Dillard’s Pricing -is it some sort of game the way they go from ridiculously high prices with certain items -tp ridiculously low (after season ends).

Sidenote: IT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE WHEN YOU’RE READY (TO ACCEPT…) VERSUS WHEN YOU’RE NOT READY (TO ACCEPT…).

There’s treasures all around us. Some are treasures to God while some are treasures to man. Most of us simply don’t recognize them! You can walk right out your front door and see a treasure of Gods. You can walk into a thrift store, and if you know what to look for, look for karma you can walk out with a treasure or 2 or 2 that someone else would be willing to pay a pretty penny for that you only paid a few pennies for – If that’s what you’re in to 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Maybe I’m the only one who pays attention to stuff like that -“Sprinklers (going) in the Rain”.

…the most difficult thing for a human-being to accomplish -is to go from being a sinner, to becoming a Saint.

My grandmother was the one who consistently taught me to turn to God in all things -through good times and bad.

FACES OF DEATH

On occasion, I’d tell people my parents never did jack for me. On one particular occasion, at about 6 years sober, attending an alcoholic’s anonymous celebration, the topic of my mother and father came up between myself and a fellow recovering Alcoholic. I told him the same old same old-that my parents had not done Jack for me all of my life -It was in that moment that God revealed to me; My mother and father were the ones that showed me the true face of Alcoholism -the true face of addiction! Many an alcoholic or addict only gets to see the face of addiction through the eyes of an inebriated brain. I got to see it for many years as a child, with my eyes wide open, and my brain completely cleared. 80% of alcoholics coming through the doors of AA don’t stick around. Looking at my own patterns, I often wonder if I wouldn’t be one of them had it not been for what I saw, what I experienced in my own personal life through my parents.I don’t think I would’ve made it honestly!I don’t think I would’ve made it honestly! They say the odds were against me, psychiatrist, counselors…. And here I sit before you clean and sober and relatively healthy.

Actually, not drinking and drugging has been the easy part for me, once I got serious about it. What’s been difficult is “the leveling of our pride, the confession of
shortcomings which the process requires for its suc-
cessful consummation”.*

I don’t know of anyone who strolled into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous looking to do a little touch up work on an already stellar spiritual existence.

*Source:Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous; Chapter 2: There is a Solution; pg. 25; pp 1 of the .