Category / 12-STEP
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12 Step: Accepting Powerlessness as a Way of Life
My problem with spiritual growth is always my resistance; the door always opens easily with the key of willingness. Banishing my ego is where the effort is required. My process is: 1) identifying it, 2) owning it, “yes, that is what I’m doing,” 3) accepting it without guilt and condemnation, “yes, we all do this,…
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SELF WILL
I maintain my father’s blog, and on Wednesdays, I post paintings from long ago, i.e., Way Back When Wednesdays. It is neither here nor there, except that it got me reflecting on some of my old images. That leads me to think about Nola Mae and my favorite photo of her. For those of you…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2023!
One Day At A Time For me, that is 15,288 times today. Thank God it still works
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DitchedSamaritan.Com
The Ditched Samaritan Blog… …is a personal art project where I combine my lifelong spiritual disciplines of 12-Step & A Course in Miracles practices with Art. The goal of this project, or more accurately, this practice, is to continuously, incrementally improve myself and, thereby, my usefulness to others. I have chosen the parable of The…
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12 Step: Just a Thought…
The time will come. At about ninety days of sobriety, after I had realized that I “wanted to stop” vs. “had to stop,” I began to worry that I might not be able to. I remember the day, time, and place. I remember who was there and what was said (1981). They also told me…
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12-Step: Just a Thought…
One Day at a Time. Time is elusive. I need to be careful when I consider it. I can’t contain it. I can’t stop it. I can’t start it. Measuring it is an illusion. I vividly remember a meeting I attended where one of the “old-timers” announced that the meeting was his one-thousandth day; I…
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Surrender To Win
It is ironic indeed that the powerlessness of step one: “We admitted we were powerless over -x- and that our lives had become unmanageable” would yield freedom. When I began, this step seemed an anti-truth to me. But as with all things twelve-step, only the slightest willingness to try was enough, and by then, my only…
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Turn it Over
Go With The Flow
