Recovery sayings / 7
The "Steps" to self-improvement have small beginnings
each Step builds the "ladder" out of the pit of despair to new HOPE.
A.A.PRAYERS
H. P. Please / πA sponsor;
πΌwho is a caring listener,
πΌcan help me to truly hear the message guiding me to freedom.πΉ
/This mission
πΌfrees me to share my gifts of wellness through a
πΌspirit of readiness to serve others
πΌadvise me abt the footholds that are safe
πΌabt chasms to avoid.
πΌ provide me w/ the tools I need during the many parts of the solitary journey of my soul.
/When I speak of this journey, I share my ex-
perience/
strength/hope with others.
If you want some-thing you've never
had you have to do
something you've
never done
That feeling of uselessness/
selfpity will dis- appear. We will lose interest in selfish things/
gain interest in
our fellows.Self-seeking will slip away. Our at-
titude/outlook upon life will change. AA (Into Action) p. 84
THOUGHTS TO PONDER
If I self-forget I find
AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A N G E D = Choosing Humility Allows New Growth Each Day.
RESENTMENTS
Though we did not like their symptoms/the way these disturbed us they
like ourselves, were sick
too. We asked God to help us show them the sametolerance/
pity/patience we'd cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves
"This is a sick man.
How can I be helpful to him? God
save me from being angry. Thy will be done." Alcoholics Anonymous (How It Works) page 67
THOUGHT TO PONDER
What if I were caring / not judgmental?
AA-related 'Alconym'; PUT
P U T = Practice Using Tolerance
"I opened up the imaginary closet in my mind where I kept all well-nurtured hurts. I tossed them into my past where they belonged. Into the newly cleaned-out space I started
storing my goals: the hopes/dreams
of what I wanted to achieve in life."
as time passes we ο¬nd our thinking will be
more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely on it. AA Into Action p. 87
THE THREE "P's" -- PAUSE/PRAY/PROCEED
AA-related 'Alconym'
A S A P = Always Say
A Prayer.
Cross-cultural Discipleship /
Richard Rohr
https://cac.org/cross-cultural-discipleship-2019-06-05/
H. P./beyond our comfort zone, beyond what we can explain or understand.
Jesus talked sheep to shep-
/fish to fish-
ermen/ bookish theology to bookish theo-
logians. He was all things to all people.
often we don't make a distinction
b/t evangelism/dis-
cipleship. People can
meet God w/in their cultural context. In order to follow God they must cross into other cultures because that’s what Jesus did
DISCIPLESHIP IS CROSSCULTURAL
when one rubs elbows in Christian fellowship w/ people who are different from us we can learn fr each other to b/c Christlike.
πΌorganizations should strive for
cultural diversity
πΌ/fully utilize the
multifaceted cultural
diversity within itself/
πΌexpress diversity of it's community,
πΌwelcome the "other"
πΌembrace all who are members of the body of Christ [everyone]
πΌintentionally collaborate
every community is multicultural when one considers the various cultures;
πΌethnic demographics,
πΌage,
πΌgender,
πΌ economic status,
πΌeducation level,
πΌpolitical orientation
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