Everything in the universe, and beyond, is about relationships. The Bible! The book of Alcoholics Anonymous! The Chilton manual you use to repair your car. Any book on physics, chemistry, math, dating, raising children, planting a garden, learning to play an instrument…
In so far as women go as companions, it’s not the men with the large houses, and the fancy cars… that are the most fortunate. But the common man, who in most cases has a woman by his side out of love, first and foremost.
How many things, in this country for example, have started out good, righteous… And are now being turned into a means of control or a means of profit, advantage…? Men constantly look for advantages well as women. And if they can’t change the system then they have no other recourse but to twist it, or bend ita
When does society ever get paid back by the criminals of our society? Besides, getting a bill from the government paying for the food, shelter, clothing and care of those incarcerated.
Go beyond the penalties of society imposed upon you when you have offended commissioned, broken the law.
The reason the Alcoholics Anonymous program works so effectively is that it comes from within us and not from outside of us. The reason prison is so ineffective is it comes from outside of us and not from inside of us.
A lot of people live like kings today compared to kings of the past. They have that drive and that determination and that necessity to live as such!
In our country, what’s different today than was different 2000 years ago? We have more things! People are pretty much the same: good; bad; ugly Why doesn’t that seem to change? Is it because what The Bible says is true about us, are character, original sin…!? I mean everything else is changing so much-why not ask?
I did a lot of bad things come why am I still healthy why am I still free, why am I still alive am I still alive, why am I still sober? The only answer can be that God is 1st and foremost a loving and merciful God-and not a punishing God!
The people I get along best with have one thing in common -Humility! I’ve never seen a humble person…🤔
I’ve never seen a person get better by taking someone else’s inventory
Trend -everyone has their own God and there’s an err of division in that that is not present in the idea of one God…
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…