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God Is My Pilot

Recently I became acquainted with a new sponsee. I realized early on that he had serious problems: unfaithfulness to his spouse, involvement with prostitutes, and other faults which I too had experienced before entering recovery and working the Steps.

By |2024-09-19T11:39:42-05:00December 19, 2005|Comments Off on God Is My Pilot

Easy Does It, Even on the Porch

I was sitting on my front porch yesterday, enjoying the beauty of God’s world around me. There are lots of trees, birds, squirrels, and even an occasional deer to help me focus on the serenity of nature.

By |2024-09-19T11:39:15-05:00December 18, 2005|Comments Off on Easy Does It, Even on the Porch

First Things First

For over thirty years, I was convinced I knew how to put first things first. I had my personal priorities, which usually involved me getting attention or getting ahead in some way. I knew that pleasing other people increased the odds that I would get what I wanted.

By |2024-10-01T15:11:55-05:00March 1, 2004|Comments Off on First Things First

Keeping it Simple

As I experience recovery, I’m finding that all the work I wanted countless others to do, I have to do myself. “The program is simple … keep the focus on myself … it works if I work it.” How many times have I heard those things! And it’s true! Over and over [I see that] simple works, and when I don’t keep it simple, I isolate and stay in my head and go nuts with resentments and anger, blocking what God is trying to tell me.

By |2025-03-25T12:25:41-05:00September 21, 1995|Comments Off on Keeping it Simple