Twelve Steps to Becoming Moderately Okay

But when a person doesn't get the value of humility in the first place, a little humiliation can save them lots of time otherwise engaged in self-defeating behaviors. The text of the step is thusly stated: Humbly asked Him/Her/It to remove our shortcomings. I personally could care less who or what... Sign in to see full entry.

Life is precious. When it is alive. Depression makes me feel like killing someone, including myself, just to punctuate the dreariness. That sort of thought process makes sense for anyone in alot of psychic, deeply personal pain. Remember that when you see other people around you acting like the... Sign in to see full entry.

Step Six says this and nothing less: Became entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character. Have you ever been entirely ready to do anything in your life? How does this notion relate to your feelings of powerlessness in the face of one life pattern, or other; battles with one... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been working on my own recovery from my past for about 20 years now. Fourteen years of that time I have been completely sober. I have found my experience working these 12 simple steps to be the most powerful agent of personal change available. I have done various and sundrie forms of therapy,... Sign in to see full entry.

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Three core entities of human experience make their appearance in alot of spiritual traditions. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost; the husband, the wife and their relationship to one another; length, width... Sign in to see full entry.

Where we're at in the process, along with a few intruding thoughts dealing with MY particular resentments against those in authority, is that we've seen good reason to want to adopt a different approach to our lives and made a beginning on the path to adopting that approach. But writing this stuff... Sign in to see full entry.

Resentments. Against ourselves, ultimately, but these masquerade as resentments against all sorts of nouns. People, places, things, institutions, behaviors. Hidden behind every resentment is the false belief that the Creator of the universe is playing a cruel and superfluous joke on us --... Sign in to see full entry.

The Christian "Right" has earned a seat at the back of the bus precisely because they are in a state of complete panic regarding the nature of their relationship with a God of their understanding. They believe that Jesus is coming and we ALL need to look busy, if not get thrown into a complete... Sign in to see full entry.

Jesus of Nazareth was a man. As a man he was brutally murdered by a conspiracy of the rich intelligensia of Palestine 2000 years ago. He is quite dead. Christ is the consciousness within us all which Jesus spoke about. It can not die because it the only thing about the human species that is actually... Sign in to see full entry.

As reported here, a local businessman who happens to be very successful and the chairman of the World Champion San Antonio Spurs, has once again experienced the devastation of untreated alcoholism. I believe it is important to talk about Peter Holt’s, “relapse,” because, like all high-profile... Sign in to see full entry.