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Spirituality is part of my entire system – my physical body, my thoughts, my actions, my existence. I do not always heed its gentle urgings. I sometimes totally deny its existence, but it is there and everywhere just like the air we breathe. If a child ignores or fails to heed the urgings of its… Continue reading How to go from frustration to being Too Blessed To Be Stressed

A paraphrase from the teachings of Eckhart Tolle is The more that you devote to the past or future robs you of the only real time that there is and that is right now. Reverend Stephanie Sorensen reminds me that this helps me to believe that the only time one can express himself is now… Continue reading Spirituality and How To Live in The Now

I was always very guarded with my true feelings and bottled up a lot of frustration, anger, fear, that came out in other self destructive ways. When I took the advice of my early AA sponsors and started faking it until I made it, I discovered that thoughts and intellectual knowledge could be very fleeting… Continue reading Spirituality and Feelings

How things have changed since I found the program of Alcoholics Anonymous! It very quickly introduced me to Spirituality. I had not had what I considered good experiences with organized religion. It helped me to rather quickly change from a very self-absorbed, very large, very angry, very violent, well-armed, well-trained man with no real friends… Continue reading Spirituality and how to enjoy a life that is Too blessed to be stressed

How does it work after my detailed preparations for solving the ideal of World Peace, curing Covid19, and someone else’s sobriety. After all, I regularly pay close attention to the often conflicting news accounts and social media, especially since the airwaves and electronic media have interviewed experts including political insiders and Hollywood stars and athletes… Continue reading Spirituality and How does it affect my handling of World Peace, Covid19, and Someone Else’s Sobriety?

If you have been in the program for a short time you probably have noticed that life, although not looking great right now, is grudgingly seeming to be getting better. If you have been in the program for some time, life has been getting better quite regularly. Since starting on this new venture it seems… Continue reading Spirituality and How you can make your life that is pretty good now even better!

“Are you crazy? Have you absolutely lost it?” “How could you possibly ever call getting shot and blown completely off of a porch a blessing?” Let’s step back a minute and look back at the time leading up to this occasion. I was a Detroit Police Officer who always worked the streets. I was raised… Continue reading Am I out of my mind to think that being shot was a blessing?

The Spiritual Law of Attraction is active in our lives 24/7/365 just as the Law of Gravity is. Some ask that if it is a Spiritual Law, is it real? Simple answer, as real as a heart attack. The Law of Attraction paraphrased is What you put into life, you get out of life. The… Continue reading How come, whenever I feel snarly, everyone around me seems to be snarly too?

The alarm went off at 6:30 AM today and I thought about how many times it had gone off when in the madness and early recovery and how miserable I had felt. As soon as Oreo, our Greyhound, took me for our first morning walk today, though, I got another taste of the feelings that… Continue reading How you can have Spirituality and feel Gratitude without stressing!

Did you ever have a day when your mind just wouldn’t stop racing? When it is racing, are these thoughts mostly sad, or uncomfortable, or remorseful, or angry, resentful thoughts? How about all of the above? If you are sick and tired of these thoughts ruining varying amounts of your day, you have come to… Continue reading Spirituality and stop running, my racing mind! Let me catch my breath!

The English Oxford Dictionary defines acceptance as Willingness to tolerate a difficult situation. The Serenity Prayer asks us to ACCEPT THE THINGS WE CAN NOT CHANGE. Nowhere in either the Oxford Dictionary definition or The Serenity Prayer does it say that we have to like anything, merely tolerate or abide by accepting that thought as… Continue reading Spirituality and Acceptance and admittance

“I see all of these happy people at AA recovery meetings who not long ago were just as miserable as I am and I want to feel that way too.” The 2nd paragraph of How it Works says “If you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it… Continue reading Spirituality and How we can become Happy, Joyous, and Free

In the Bible it is written that you will declare a thing and it will be established for you. What you give you will receive. We now know that whatever you put into your mirror of life you also will get back.The mirror that you shave or fix your hair in front of has no… Continue reading Spirituality and The Law of Attraction and CBA

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