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Tue, Nov 12, 2013 08:12:16 AM
ℑ i will remember that my honest story is what i share the best. ℑ
posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 08:12:16 AM
today, that is certainly more than enough.
off on a tangent, i have often heard that this is a **we** program. some of my peers believe that when they share they should use first person plural pronouns to be all-inclusive and restate the **we** aspect of the program. while certainly an admirable thing to do, for me, i cannot speak for any other member and do not pretend to have the “voice” of the fellowship and my peers. it certainly is a **we** program, BUT i do the gig on a daily basis. i do the footwork. i surrender and learn to accept. i write my steps. i suffer the slings and arrows or ignominious defeat, **we** certainly do not. as i get back to the topic of this morning, this becomes extremely important to ME! i can share the history of the local fellowship and sometimes i do, but only to illustrate a point. i can spout chapter and verse from more than one piece of literature, but only to hammer home something i am trying to relate ab out MY experience in the recovery pool. i attend a single fellowship for a very specific reason, it is where I belong, everywhere else affords me far too many loopholes, small or large, that allow me to act out and yes even use every now and aging, after all, those fellowships focus on a specific substance and behavior and provide a treatment for them in isolation. ME, i need a cure for the self-contained pandemic, i fondly call addiction, and only in this fellowship have I found it.
anyhow, i am running way late today, so i will just say this. today i am grateful for my experience in recovery and active addiction, as it gives me a powerful trove from which i can draw upon, to share MY story and how this process, recovery affects ME!
off on a tangent, i have often heard that this is a **we** program. some of my peers believe that when they share they should use first person plural pronouns to be all-inclusive and restate the **we** aspect of the program. while certainly an admirable thing to do, for me, i cannot speak for any other member and do not pretend to have the “voice” of the fellowship and my peers. it certainly is a **we** program, BUT i do the gig on a daily basis. i do the footwork. i surrender and learn to accept. i write my steps. i suffer the slings and arrows or ignominious defeat, **we** certainly do not. as i get back to the topic of this morning, this becomes extremely important to ME! i can share the history of the local fellowship and sometimes i do, but only to illustrate a point. i can spout chapter and verse from more than one piece of literature, but only to hammer home something i am trying to relate ab out MY experience in the recovery pool. i attend a single fellowship for a very specific reason, it is where I belong, everywhere else affords me far too many loopholes, small or large, that allow me to act out and yes even use every now and aging, after all, those fellowships focus on a specific substance and behavior and provide a treatment for them in isolation. ME, i need a cure for the self-contained pandemic, i fondly call addiction, and only in this fellowship have I found it.
anyhow, i am running way late today, so i will just say this. today i am grateful for my experience in recovery and active addiction, as it gives me a powerful trove from which i can draw upon, to share MY story and how this process, recovery affects ME!
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my
words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce).
It is because they do not know these, that men do not know me.