Some people have worked hard all their lives to get what they have today. Some people have suffered hard all their lives to get what they have today. What do you suppose these 2 groups have gotten respectively? And of course there’s that 3rd group 🤷‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

The thing I struggle with more than anything else is the lack of love we afford one another.

Some people think love is characterized by an irresistible urge or desire. Others by what you do for them, by being there for them in their hour of need.

The psychological and emotional and spiritual symptoms of alcohol ism are very real. I think with alot of us, if we can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. And if we can’t see it and we don’t like it, then it really doesn’t exist.

Why does a civilization or a group go from bad to good and back to bad again? Unhealthy to healthy to unhealthy again? The more we become takers rather than givers….. The more we think of ourselves rather than others… The less thought we give at all to…. The more of a decline we will begin to see. So in order to experience a resurgence, a climb backup to the top, A great start is to simply reverse the trend and get back to what was working.

Before I got sober, in the early days of my sobriety, I had envisioned something quite different from what life afforded me. I was hoping for something that would require a little less change, a little less acceptance on my part

Sometimes life reminds us it’s bigger than we are! That’s when we need to remind our selves GOD is bigger than life!

As you know I have been helping my family who are elderly now with their day today needs. And you would think they would be very happy and appreciative for for having someone there to assist them. Well that’s not always the case. Of course it’s my responsibility to remember thato remember that these folks are getting older and that’s not always a joyful experience. I know some people in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous also have children, and sometimes being the midget in the room, sometimes growing as a youngster as well, are not always the funniest things either.

Sometimes we alcoholics are too smart, too aware for our own good. Remember, ignorance is Bliss.

It’s all about happiness. If I’m happy, and GOD’S happy, chances are you’re going to be happy! For me, this is accomplished through:

1)Gratitude (I’m happy)

2)Doing good (GOD’S happy)

3) If GOD is happy with me, chances are you will be atleast ok with me as well

My job is not to judge or to evaluate, but to bring these GOD-given principles into reality through application!

Much to our own dismay, when we stop drinking, many of the things we drank over are still there.

From time to time I have some not so good thoughts regarding other people. But if I had the choice to bring them to fruition in the lives of certain people, I wouldn’t choose it to be so! Perhaps there is a redeeming quality somewhere in that along with the fact that not all people share in this limitation.

A certain fella fights like the devil, runs his mouth like the devil, and becomes an overnight sensation; a 100 millionaire!

Even though it may appear that with all your pain, all your struggle, all your effort, you have ended up right back where you started, perhaps you are a little wiser for it 🤷‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Some people never seem to figure out where they belong -because where they’re at is it 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Its unlikely the God is prone to any sort of lapses -So you gotta figure everything in our lives is for a reason.

Where relationships are concerned I tried and it didn’t work out. While it’s true that other people perhaps perhaps didn’t play their part very well, what to me is more pertinent is the fact that much of the time I didn’t play my part very well 🤷‍♂️ sighs

Don’t let them make you feel uncomfortable, make them feel uncomfortable. Some people are masters of getting people to dance to their tune. To have people on their terms rather than the other way around. My aunt is one such person.

The thing about ascending towards God further and further is:

• The air is fresher

• The view is magnificent

• It’s somewhat lonely up there [humanly speaking]

• The air is thin

I don’t hold anything against anybody anybody with an addiction who has trouble being sober can’t understand sober. And from a certain perspective, I don’t hold it against anyone it’s anyone for not wanting to ascend.

Out of sight out of mind. Out of mind out of heart. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Just imagine, we’re privy to bits and pieces with stretches of relief here and there in between. But God, ever since the dawn of man he has had no relief at all. He sees and knows everything and with the increasing population of a the children who are hard necked and stiff necked and wicked the wicked, he gets less and less relief as time goes on.

The harder something is to believe the more we scrutinize it even if all other factors are = to other factors regarding things which are not so hard to believe -why? There are people in The Bible we have no problem believing existed. As soon as we start hearing about something that we are to obey or revere or that has the term miracle attached to him, we pull out all kinds of magnifying glasses and Combs and toothbrushes and this and that and the other… why?

The worst feeling in the world 🤢 is often accompanied by the best place in the world! 🤲

You have to figure the brightest people in the world are not running things. So you have the figure the brightest people in the world, and logically so, but not necessarily morally so, will have a decided advantage over the majority. Like the scammed from Southern California in the late 80s, 90s, 2000s.

We ask, pray GOD’S help, it comes a week, a month, a year later, and we completely forget, fail to recognize that GOD not only heard, but ANSWERED us! 🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♂️

The less you say, the less fuel/ammunition you give others.

People prefer it when you allow them to be in the spotlight.

Today while out for my walk, I passed a pizza-box with 4 pieces of pizza in the middle of the road. What’s even more shameful is people driving by not bothering to pick it up. It’s not just the shameful act of the person who left it there, it is further reverberated by the hundreds of people driving by who take no pride in their community. That’s Las Cruces, New Mexico for you. And we should feel ashamed as a community for acting so! I’ve seen this countless times in the 36 years I’ve lived here -shameful!

It probably wouldn’t even take all of humanity to solve the problems of starvation, homelessness, loneliness… a 3rd would probably do the trick -minimally. But as it stands probably less than 5% of humanity makes this a top priority. We’re about 30% away.

There’s a fine line between trying to make people more open to your lifestyle and promoting it!!! Children for example don’t know the difference. Like the character in the movie blitz said to the homosexual, the homosexual, I don’t care what you do as long as you do it privately! I do not want my child seen 2 gay women or 2 gay men walking down the street holding hands are smooching in public. And I’m sorry to say this but the welfare of a child is always placed before the welfare or the interest of an adult!!!! Although that seems to be changing. For example, things we see on television no longer seem to be concerned with the welfare, the protection of our children. The internet with all it’s sexual…