H.O.W.        You know what it stands for !

I am finding half measures, regarding suggestions...The women

I sponsor are not  -100%-

Am I spinning my wheels?  spitting into the wind?  OK- so I am stepping back

now. I have vented.

I admit I want     HOW    'As only the dying can be' !

Yet,  I am not their HP.     I am not in charge.

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Carry The Messge, Joe McQ. August House,c. 2002.

Came across  (the above) back to basics book which

stresses  fundamental tenets of the Big Book & Sponsorship.

It talks about the bedrock process of getting sober and

timely work on the steps.(top Page 5)

" The domino effect"  - the momentum- (admission of

powerlessness came to believe, made a decision-)  How when

baking a cake we do not" Put the flour i... Read More

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 Woke to an image...not uncommon. A woman standing

3/4 view. Soft shoulder. In a dusty brown coat, scarf over her hair.

reading a paper. leather suitcase on the ground to her left.

This is someone who (I) feel immediate comfort,even welcome

on approach. steady, glad to see you, smile that stays-

she does not turn away, listens without rush, or urgancy.

I even could envision an arm over my shoulder.

   Unconditional ? how many pe... Read More

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Striving for the middle of the see-saw...

  A person standing on the porch of a new day. Having said their prayers

and just read a meditation( about the Shakers) " Hands to work and

Hearts to God"

   The beauty and simplicity of their living and productivity...

Yet few Shakers remain today. Something(s) happened-

for all the wonderous efforts that way of Life is pretty much

gone. Similarity can be found in Quakers and Amish-

( an... Read More

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A quote I like from an author I ADORE....

"The day he first told me he was starting to disappear I didn't believe him & so he stopped & held his hand up to the sun & it was like thin paper in the light & finally I said you seem very calm for a man who is disappearing & he said it was a relief after all those years of trying to keep the pieces of his Life in one place. Later on, I went to see him again & as I was leaving, he put a package in my hand. Th... Read More

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