Oftentimes we try and figure out the situation so we can figure out how to approach it. The only problem with that is that in many cases according to the spiritual realm -is that the approach is the same irregardless! There’s no figuring to be done. For example calm a regardless of the individual you are dealing with -you are always kind and respectful to the best of your ability. If we are dealing with a dishonest person; regardless of circumstance or conditions-we remain honest and maintain our integrity without question!

One of the differences between Jesus and ourselves is that He knows what’s in a person’s soul -whereas in many cases, we ourselves DO NOT. He knows who is salvageable -and who is the last cause. But He probably treated everybody just the same none the less. In the poem of the man God with regard to Judas the scariette he stated I have to try, I cannot let it be said that in any instance “I never tried to save a soul.” So once again -It boils down to the right action, from a spiritual perspective, is generally the appropriate action under (m)any and all conditions -or circumstances. 🤷‍♂️ “So stop doing the figurin’ -and let God do the figurin'” [play off a line from the movie “Rocky” (1976)].

When I’m passing a person on the street I don’t know if I’m going to run into a jerk or somebody very kind. When I choose to bow to my ego and snub them before they snub me -I may very well be snubbing a kind person and and adding coldness whether once or where there once was none. Are you the type of person who is more willing to turn a warm person into a cold person -or more willing to risk whatever warmth you have in you becoming cold by reaching out and being snubbed? Remember, you always have control over whether you become warm or cold in the end. Remember, you do in fact affect others for better or for worse! Can you live with affecting them for the worst?*

*They say we are powerless over others: people; places; and things. This is perhaps one of the biggest half truths or half lies in the universe. Just about everything we do is founded upon the actions and attitudes of those around us. Armies are based upon…. Attitudes are based upon…. Actions (from the time we can walk) are based upon… So next time…

People trying to make millions off of people with something they can benefit from. Worse yet, something they need. I always thought it was better to make a small profit on a large number of people in these cases rather than a large profit on a small number of people in these cases.

Everyone in Alcoholics Anonymous comes in with their own gifts and their oand their own liabilities. Honesty seemed to be one of my strengths while acceptance was a very bad weakness -and still is. Some people come out of traumatic childhood with a highly limited ability to accept (or conform) while others seem to develop a great sense of acceptance or conformity.

Some people from dysfunctional families turn out to be just like their parents while others turn out to be the opposite -extremes.

Not everyone in Alcoholics Anonymous can be a great sponsor or is…

For many years in Alcoholics Anonymous I was afraid to work with others, afraid I didn’t have anything to offer… *Afraid I didn’t have the right attitude for the job. For many years I was afraid to go to the soup kitchen – Fear, falls evidence appearing real kept me stagnant for many years in various areas. My advice to all people knew in any walk of life or in this case, alcohol it’s anonymous is to get involved as quickly as possible. The only way to get past fear of the unknown is through action, through experience -to know! As Spock might have said “We are all born unknowing”. Think of the confidence and the change in attitude we have acquired through experiences -whether they have been thrust upon us or whether they have been voluntarily….Let’s face it come many if not most of our childhood experiences were thrust upon us.They largely determined the people we are -or at least the fears we have overcome; and some of the fears we have adopted -I suppose. Something else Spock said, “For everything there is at 1st time”. Something God told me many years ago “For everything there is a last time”. Current “Everything for which there is a first time, there shall be a last time -as well. MAKE IT COUNT!!!!”

*From day one in alcoholic’s anonymous every person has something to offer. Find your niche but don’t limit it to only your strength. It’s. Some of the greatest achievers in lit’s to chevers in life did so in areas where they had little or no seeming talent or ability. They say that 90% of talent is hard work-Capish? That being said, you may not think you’re very good at this or that -but shirley you can find something that you are good at. Start there -wherever there happens to be. And the way a person finds out where “there” is is by trying; by starting from right where you’re at; by starting with what’s right in front of you 🤷‍♂️ “I KNOW NO OTHER WAY” -CARTER (2005).

There’s 2 basic reasons people don’t like or get along with one another:

•Too much like each other*

•Too different from each other**

•Or both in combination 😏

The law of physics doesn’t operate from your truth or my truth; it operates from a set set of laws and principles – Adhering to God’s way of thinking not yours or mine.

*Oftentimes, we cannot see in ourselves… but we see ourselves in others… If we like that trait in others -we should seek to build on it in ourselves… if we don’t -we should seek to change it in our selves. However, the soul always knows!!!!

**It seems quite natural to pick people who are very much similar similar in their way of thinking 2 hours. In certain circles it is almost to become an epidemic.. But we don’t learn anything from people who think the same way we do. And we don’t build character from peace from people who act the same way we do-who act the way we expect them to act at all times. Tru-shtory!!!! 🤷‍♂️

When I was about 19 I started picking up on a phenomenon.. I would say things and then picture the other person saying them to me and then evaluate them. Did they sound strange or did they make perfect sense?

When I was younger I did things for people so that they could recognize me or appreciate me because I couldn’t recognize or appreciate myself -my opinion didn’t matter (of myself). This is a terribly debilitating way to go through life. And you know what the message from God was in just about every case – “I’m not gonna let you get away with it”. You see in most cases, people never really showed their appreciation, or validation of my efforts. Tru-shtory! 🤷‍♂️

I guess you could say I’m more like John the Baptist in my approach -Fiery, even ornery at times 🤷‍♂️

If not drinking twer’ all there was to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, we’d be passing out fliers or pamphlets instead of a book of 560 some -odd pages.

I’ve been hearing things and alcoholics and anonymous that sounds great-things that will get yourself killed.

•This is a selfish program*

•If you’re gonna be miserable -you might as well go out and get drunk**

•If somebody were to try and shove this program down my throat I’d spit it right back out***

•God don’t make junk****

•Alcoholics Anonymous guarantees fairness*****

•JUST DON’T DRINK******

•This is a simple program for complicated people*******

•Nothing going on that a drink or a drug won’t make worse********

•Alcoholics Anonymous is a perfect program for imperfect people (Church)*********

•”I came into Alcoholics Anonymous to save my ass -not my soul” “Alcoholics Anonymous is for sick people trying to get better -not for bad people trying to get good”**********

*As far as I know, nothing God has ever asked me to do -or ever will is selfish

**Tell that to the parents of the person who got ran over by an alcoholic (in AA) who took that advice

***Rebellion, defiance… These are not spiritual principles -and therefore, they are not something to be touted around like some badge o’ courage. Rebellion and defiance are the code of the alcoholic in their cups -in these rooms however, said philosophy can get you killed. A certain degree of conformity, and most certainly self-discipline, are the principles we strive for in these rooms.

****Well it’s true the God doesn’t make junk -He did give us a free will. And as bill Wilson points out, few people ever made a more of a mess out by defying God (and His principles) than the Alcoholic who is -selfish, and self-centered in the extreme.

“Who I am is God’s gift to me -What I make of myself is my gift to God!”

*****Alcoholics Anonymous doesn’t guarantee fairness, it guarantees equality -as much as is humanly possible. If life were fair half the principles of the program would go in the trash

******If not drinking twer’ all there was to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, we’d be passing out fliers or pamphlets instead of a book of 560 some -odd pages -“we” could all just show up to a meeting and then go home

*******True -but only in some cases. What’s simple for some -is complicated for others 🤔 What’s complicated for some -is quite simple for others

********One of the best -and truest things I ever heard in an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting

*********ABSOLUTELY!!!!

**********Alcoholics Anonymous doesn’t discourage us from becoming better human beings -It does 8n fact state that one of the essentials for recovery, and a quality life -is that of character-building.

Some people manage to get sober going to church -finding religion… Some people manage to get sober and Alcoholics Anonymous. What’s anonymous. Now in both instances the opposite is also true. People fail! Why is that:

•Alcoholics Anonymous is the perfect vehicle for yeah it’s difficult for people getting sober-it has all of the tentacles necessary… Church, not so much. They both however contain the most vital ingredient to recovery and that is God and God’s Grace.

•The reason people neither get sober in church or in Alcoholics Anonymous is because they’re closed, defiant, rebellious. No one can thrive in an environment if they are closed to it. That’s why we tell the alcoholic just to keep coming back… “love” -sometimes things do sink-in if the door (to the Alcoholic mind) is able to open ever so slightly (where did that word creep in from “love”).

•I’ve always found it very interesting (tellkng) that Jesus used words and teaching as the vehicle for… “CHANGE”. A reconfiguration or rebooting of sorts! God saw that we needed to change (Although he did regret making clothes; because clothes have pockets; and the purpose of pockets is to have them filled with something -“change” noooo, not that kind 😄). As I said before, it appears that are life long mission is to undo what was done, to unlearn what we have learned, to revert back to being who we were before the world, satan sunk their claws into us.

•Separating the wheat from the chaff in Alcoholics Anonymous

•People in the groups at the hospital would get frustrated with get frustrated with me for some of the seemingly more obvious or basic things I would share in the meeting. I’d tell them, when you go out on a camping trip (hike) with your kids, do you go at your pace or at theirs? You always have to start with the least knowledgeable person in the group.*

*Sometimes the most profound thing that can come out of a person’s mouth is a simple reminder of something that has already been said (many times before) 🤷‍♂️

Connecting the dots

Nothing will ensure freedom from alcohol so much as vigorous work with another alcoholic. Nothing will ensure our failure so much as an intolerance for spiritual principles. These things are all over the book but they’re not necessarily connected side-by-side.

I was the very thing this book was written for an for analytics anonymous and yet so little did I understand. My life as an alcoholic was like reading a line from the book of Alcoholics Anonymous and then skipping 2 or 3 – Alcoholics Anonymous’s book filled in the missing lines. As it was so aptly stated in the movie “Blade Runner” “I am the business”

AA It’s not about fairness it’s about equality. Equality is the foundation of which the fertilizer of Strife and struggle (unfairness-life on life’s terms) allows the Alcoholic to flourish under the sunlight of God’s Spiritual principles!

You probably can’t scare an Alcoholic sober but you may be able to scare them into asking for help.

Jesus could have used various tactics and scared the hell out of people all around the globe and turned them into believers out of fear alone -but instead he chose to do so through 💘 🙏

The longer you wait to ask for forgiveness; or to make amends; or to expiate…