Category: The 12 Steps

Your Day

Where we begin our day and where we end our day will determine our day… I was helping a friend recently who is dealing with an addiction.  He has been in and out of recovery and sobriety for a number of years.  He has everything it takes to make it because he wants to get…

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“All I want from tomorrow…

is to get it better than today.”  These are words from Huey Lewis and The News’ song ‘Jacob’s Ladder.”  I can remember listening to the cassette tape of their album “Fore”…yes cassette tape…over and over once I got into recovery.  The two songs I clung to were this one and “Hip to Be Square.”  Jacob’s Ladder” reminded…

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Doing what “it” says = Serenity

James 1:22 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says.”  One of the greatest tools I was given in the infant stages of my sobriety was the serenity prayer:     God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change (other people, places and things), the courage…

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“Bound” to continue…

“Proverbs 25:28; “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” (This is a continuation from my previous blog about the two steps in achieving a new goal; start and continue. The next several posts will deal with what it takes to continue.) Has the following scenario ever happened to…

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