Happy, Joyous, and Free The real end of prayer is to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. We often use the terms happy and joy (joyous in anticipation) synonymously. Happy is a reaction to the immediate environment and circumstance, truly a flash in the pan, as it made […]
WHAT’S IN A NAME,  AN  ECONOMY OF MEMORY, A LITTLE FLOWERY TO PRICK  THE  CREATIVE FAMILIARITY,  AND OVER  EASY ON THE UNDERSTANDING I ransacked my third edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to find a title that had some cache and would be recognized by the recovery community. Alas, anything that was recognizable as a […]
eTo Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claim Him.   Pg. 11 3rd edition Big Book He went on talking and told me that he had found the plan has a basis for love ,and the practice of Christ’s injunction â€Love thy neighbor as thy self.†[…]
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip in recovery is to  fall out of  fault , slide out of place and have no ability to show some restraint A slip, a momentary loss of balance quickly recovered As part and parcel of the RumRadio.org promotional strategy I personally hand out […]
Hi  my friends in fellowship With that a bit of a gift I wanted to give you a heads up on a sponsorship website RumRadio.org Big Book, Twelve and Twelve, and As Bill sees it  done with a whit of wit, humor and a slight twist, if you find value pass it on, take […]
When you’re marooned and transport seems a daunting task. Its good to remember that there are only two things needed to start a new A.A. meeting, resentment and a coffee pot, the coffee pot is optional. Perhaps a mountain bike, a good pair of walking shoes or a slightly leaky canoe, can be included. There […]
The best revenge is by having a happy and successful life. How attractive is that? We come into the room’s beaten and broken people and sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly things change, as long as we can be honest, take suggestion (clean House) and trust in God. We insist on having fun, the party always […]
Tâ€Âwas the day before the closing prayer at the Crested Butte mountain conference…
The last early meeting out on the deck commenced hot on the heels of Friday mornings final meditation. The subject was “when the student is ready the teacher will appear” I was running late and slipped in about halfway through.
In a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous we share a closeness and familiarity of experience that very few out side of the rooms ever get to experience I like to think that what we have is the intimacy of strangers; we have the ability to share our experiences, strengths and hopes with out fear of judgment […]
There is no such thing as a perfect sponsor or a perfect sponsee we can only share our E, S and H. We have put together a sponsorship website where we address some of theses questions RumRadio.org The section on questions that sponsors ask about sponsee’s, might be a big help. Tips Techniques and understandings […]
By Bob k “Jack Alexander, Saturday Evening Post, was also one of the friends to whom Bill sent material. Of the Twelve Tradition essays, Alexander has this to say: ‘The only serious (in my view) defect is that you have treated the old Washingtonian Society too briefly; most people never heard […]
A.A. has quietly acknowledged, primarily through one publication, that the early A.A. pioneers in Akron believed firmly that the answer to all their problems was in the Good Book, as they called the Bible. A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob said that all the basic ideas were taken from their study of the Good Book. And […]
Some people don’t know me and they don’t like me, some people get to know me and then they don’t like me, its none of my business what you think of me because you think so little of me anyway, if not in stature surely in time Now you are free to be your authentic […]
Happy Birthday Recovered Its all about the upholstery, the old stuffing has been replaced with the cushion of grace and a new skin that is scotch guarded with the humility of faith while the utility of the strong back to service is firmly put in place, this instead of ending up on the junk heap […]
THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE Happiness is way over rated as it is dependent on the immediate external circumstance. I.E. I am happy because I just won the lottery, I am happy because she said yes, I am happy because I just had purchased a new car, and just as quickly I am […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
Sitting at the edge of the lap pool I was appraising my physique once athletic and toned as it had boasted of strength and the glory of youth now reduced to a state of age and over indulgence, as it reminded me of the body of the laughing Buddha, this insight struck me […]
Alcohol and drugs are equal opportunity destroyers. The disease takes no heed to your particular flavor of addiction labeling it as such is the much greater affliction. The divisions started with Bill Wilson’s “singleness of porpoise” which I believe dose not hold any water, then or now creating the indignation of the drunken […]
Often times in the addiction recovery arena it is claimed that they have been saved by grace. Consider that according to Google (a thousand years hence the anthropologists will have concluded that as a society they all communed with an all knowing god named Google) that there are 140,000,000 drunks in the world. Accordingly to the […]
Sisyphus was a Titan that was cursed by the gods to roll a boulder everyday up the side of a mountain and at night it would roll back down to the bottom and for him to repeat the task again and again for all eternity. When the gods came to gloat at his […]
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