I am once again deeply indebted to today's author, @Bmk1989 .
NT
Enjoy:
Rx:
1. Trust God
2. Clean house
3. Help others
~~~~~~~~~ Bob Smith, MD
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded by Bob Smith ("Doctor Bob") and Bill Wilson ("Bill W"). They met in May of 1935, and frantically began working on outreach, two years before they would write one of the most revolutionary books of our lifetimes. In February of 1937, Doctor Bob comedically authored the above three-part "prescription" for sobriety.
Never before has so much been accomplished by so few words.
These three very simple clauses became the backbone of the famous 12 Steps, published in the equally famous "Big Book" (BB) in April 1939. That second clause, "cleaning house," is where those in recovery get rid of everything but God, setting us up on a path to serve Him (BB p. 98). As Bill W. and Doctor Bob went on to elaborate, it is in this phase that we conduct a thorough and searching "moral inventory," which is explicitly designed so that that we can, with humility as our guide, ask God to "remove whatever self-will has blocked [us] off from Him." (BB p. 71; 12/12 p. 34). Importantly, this clause mirrors James 4:8.
Nearly a century later, for a few minutes in the Texas sky, the moon will block us from the Sun; that is, that which we all revolve around. Today, the total solar eclipse enters Texas at 1:27 p.m. CDT, and exits at 1:49 p.m., traveling in excess of 1700 mph. As people gather round here from far and wide, wild celebrations will occur as people make cherished memories. While all that is going on, let those of us here reshape the down-the-road memories we're bound to make. As science and history take place before our very eyes, let's pause to consider what, despite our best efforts, still selfishly "blocks" us from our Creator, our Higher Power, our "Sun" if you will. What well-recognized assets and strengths do we undoubtedly possess, and that serve us so well, can, by cleaning house of the latent insecurities that often travel with those same assets, we use to serve Him and others better?
Shouting out to our friend @smileartisan who knows a thing or two about fine tuning his God-given assets. James 4:8.
BMK
NT
Enjoy:
Rx:
1. Trust God
2. Clean house
3. Help others
~~~~~~~~~ Bob Smith, MD
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded by Bob Smith ("Doctor Bob") and Bill Wilson ("Bill W"). They met in May of 1935, and frantically began working on outreach, two years before they would write one of the most revolutionary books of our lifetimes. In February of 1937, Doctor Bob comedically authored the above three-part "prescription" for sobriety.
Never before has so much been accomplished by so few words.
These three very simple clauses became the backbone of the famous 12 Steps, published in the equally famous "Big Book" (BB) in April 1939. That second clause, "cleaning house," is where those in recovery get rid of everything but God, setting us up on a path to serve Him (BB p. 98). As Bill W. and Doctor Bob went on to elaborate, it is in this phase that we conduct a thorough and searching "moral inventory," which is explicitly designed so that that we can, with humility as our guide, ask God to "remove whatever self-will has blocked [us] off from Him." (BB p. 71; 12/12 p. 34). Importantly, this clause mirrors James 4:8.
Nearly a century later, for a few minutes in the Texas sky, the moon will block us from the Sun; that is, that which we all revolve around. Today, the total solar eclipse enters Texas at 1:27 p.m. CDT, and exits at 1:49 p.m., traveling in excess of 1700 mph. As people gather round here from far and wide, wild celebrations will occur as people make cherished memories. While all that is going on, let those of us here reshape the down-the-road memories we're bound to make. As science and history take place before our very eyes, let's pause to consider what, despite our best efforts, still selfishly "blocks" us from our Creator, our Higher Power, our "Sun" if you will. What well-recognized assets and strengths do we undoubtedly possess, and that serve us so well, can, by cleaning house of the latent insecurities that often travel with those same assets, we use to serve Him and others better?
Shouting out to our friend @smileartisan who knows a thing or two about fine tuning his God-given assets. James 4:8.
BMK
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