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Constantly stay strong by refusing addictions. Accept the proud feeling of the constant success you will experience each day. If we constantly complain how much of a struggle sobriety is it will make us weak. Nothing is more insulting when this happens. Nothing is more embarrassing when we relapse. Even worse living through it, even worse facing our friends. Let’s say you attended alcoholics anonymous meetings for a few months. You relapsed and returned to the same meetings again. I would feel very low. If the group of 12 steppers would ask you why did you relapse what will your answer be. All the time and effort the group devoted to you didn’t you learn enough about how to stay sober for the rest of your life. Alcoholics Anonymous is a powerful source to learn from,gain strength,providing us with a program to live daily and by doing so will keep us sober for life. With all these resources in front of you why did you relapse. By relapsing the group did not fail and not your friends either. Only you did. Let’s talk further about failure. You spent months in meetings voluntarily or by request of the judge or for whatever other reason. How you got there does not matter but what matters is that you absorbed massive amounts of knowledge and did not learn how to stay sober. The knowledge would have taught you how to resist the temptation of addictions. All of this information never stayed in your mind. In one ear and out the other. Were you asleep during every meeting? Did you think being drunk is more fun? Better to live on your feet than on your knees. Walk proudly with your head up than on your knees crying and praying with excessive remorse. No one is listening to you and I’ll bet not even to yourself. To avoid this problem listen closer and learn and live and practice daily that Alcoholics Anonymous program. See ya’ next time

A quality in a person that allows him to choose the sensible course. Caution,Discretion, Forethought the after effect from the sting of life’s lessons and trails on through life. Keeping our distance from the intense burning flame from lessons learned. More careful becomes the new tradition problem solving and peace creating process we prefer to live with. Courage is a quality of mind that enables one to stand in the face of hardship. Bravery, Heroism, persistence the strength that arrives at our awareness we are weak and powerless. No one likes the feeling of weakness so we turn away and strive to be stronger. Remaining inactive and accepting our weakness cowardice will prevail and overcome us. The courage will return with another dose of booze and a mind destroying drug. I know this so well I lived this life many years ago but no more. Booze was my preference drugs never was. Today I get my courage from the bible . No one ever learns anything by being a boozer.Courage makes successful sobriety. Always remain strong and always refuse the offer of a drink or drugs. Make your drink preference coffee and cream. When someone offers me a drink I say “no thanks. I’m not a drinker”. Simple as that. Justice is the Action,Practice,obligation of awarding ourselves what we deserve. The daily struggles of the courageous man and the simple practice and small input of effort in the tribulations of the struggling sober man. And the feeling of justice has been served. See ya’next time.

The bitterest tears can frighten the strongest of men. What was our emotions before the passing of our mate? Has it increased or decreased in the last six months? Was it comfortable in coping with the issue during awake hours? Frightening Nightmares? What frightened us the most in that dream? Describe our emotions upon waking. How long has this nightmare image appeared during our awake hours? How long since a mates passing? Has this issue made you an excessive stress issue? The bitterest tears can create these issues easy enough. Was the dream about a grave? Being buried along side the mate? Could not wait until we die to sacrifice our living state to make up for feeling guilty for the mates passing? In the dream were you both in the same casket? Words left unsaid creates regrets and remorse . The basic truth that we now know what may become our future. If we knew that the bitterest tears was ahead of us during our careless uncaring attention to our mate would we have straighten up and be devoted to our families? Deeds and Resposibilities we ignored what extreme difference did it make? did anything appear? able to reverse but regret excessively by not doing so? Why not? Bitter tears situations can be avoided in the future by being devoted to christs ethical and moral system. Where would bitter feelings be created from this?

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The bitterest tears shed over a grave are words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Bitter feelings at present or memories of the past. Bitterest tears means what we failed to do,say, or afraid to pursue. Afraid to create failure in ourselves and the remorse we didn’t think of someone else first. As a result of a deed left undone. Words left unsaid can be forgiven. We carry around the acid burning inside of us because now the person is in the grave. This is the bitterest moment .Tears dropping onto a certain persons grave. Like drops of acid that burns our eyes and the memory of what we physically seen. What do we use to comfort the pain of the acid? One of the solutions is the power of prayer. We cannot turn back time but we can forgive ourselves in our own time. Forgive ourselves and learn not to make the same mistake twice. This way we won’t have to live this acid burning nightmare. The next relationship we enter into will be harmony and no regrets at the end of it. What also adds to the bitterest tears is alcohol and other addictions.I know all about it. I’ve been there. stay sober all through the next relationship and you will see the better person inside of you emerge. I know this. I’ve been there too.

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Being miserable with ourselves is our own hardship. Strange as it sounds forgiving ourselves is very essential. Remember to use sincere and regretful emotions at the same time. If only for ourselves it works to calm the largest of storms inside our raging troublesome world. Praying in the opinions of many people is for the weak. Thinking that they are too strong to need it. Pray means to plead for help and to have mercy on our soul. Ever ask for advice from a friend? Praying works in a similar way. Weak enough to ask a friend, Weak enough to pray. There is truth in the power of prayer. The changes we see in our character. The good feeling of our own creation will inspire others to imitate us and be a follower. It all started by using the power of prayer.

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I was reading about the power of prayer. One day I met a female and I got to know her a little. I was a little irritated with her and it didn’t sit with me at all. The article about the power of prayer taught me how to forgive not only someone else but ourselves at the same time. The purpose of the power of prayer is also to improve and learn and love and forgiveness for humanity. Saying we are sorry is just a word that means nothing. The power of prayer works when sincere and regretful emotions are working at the same time. When this experience happened I learned that it was not what the other person did to me it was that I did not know how to forgive myself and others. I was irritated with myself because I could not become the person I wanted to be. I could have years earlier if only I knew how to forgive myself and others.

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Hello readers. I have been away from my desk rehabilitating a foot condition. I have been out of the saddle healing up my saddle soars and now I am back in the saddle working on new ones. I will be missing off and on but I will get back to you when I can. Thanks for waiting.

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I will start early in the morning

Arrive at noon

I spend my day the snails way

I will travel my slow pace

One misstep at a time

Not a straight line like a snail

or steady like a wind in a sail

Unpredicting and slightly off course

With no complaints or sorrows

Positive and confident

Will be all of my tomorrows

Lifes’ lessons will prevail

I learned them from the snail

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A good life makes a man wise according to god and gives him experience in many things.For the more humble he is and the more subject to god. The wiser and the more at peace he will be in all things. If you consider what peace a good life will bring to yourself and what joy it will give to others. I think you will be more concerned about your spiritual progress. The 12 steps is spirituality based. I have tried many products and as many ideas to cope with my issues as a drinker. The only solution was rehab. We all know that drinking and hanging out in bars will not give us the peace of mind that only rehab will do for us. What is the problem with some people? Drinkers know they have a drinking problem so why not go? Do you actually think you do not have a problem? Drinking disrupted my whole life and I would say I do not have a problem? You have drinking problem. Start being the wise man.

Thomas A Kempis

A good life makes a man wise according to god and gives him experience in many things. For the more humble he is and the more subject to god , the wiser and the more at peace he will be in all things. When reading the scriptures seek profit rather than polished diction. Writing about our religious experiences in a plain simple format written by a simple man with no intention to use persuading ideas to make us believe a basic truth is only a half truth. Sobriety is a simple knowlege filled truth not a half baked definition made up by a person who never believed in being sober. Always believing that drinking was always the better life. An expert on sobriety that never would let himself do it. Sobriety is not complex does not require a college degree to navigate. Relaxed and with the presence of peace of mind and a gladness of the drinking life being finally over. The person who encourages people to drink and use addictions offers us grief and a lifetime of problems. Do we prefer half baked bread with a meal of addictions or bread baked by an experienced baker who lived the sober man.

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