Keeping it simple

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 / 🎁A sponsor;
🌼who is a caring listener,
🌼can help me to truly hear the message guiding me to freedom.🌹

/This mission

🌼frees me to share my gifts of wellness through a
🌼spirit of readiness to serve others

/The Steps

🌼advise me abt the footholds that are safe
🌼abt chasms to avoid.
🌼 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 ﬁnd 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.

🌼organizations should strive for
cultural diversity
🌼/fully utilize the

multifaceted cultural
diversity within itself/
🌼express diversity of it's community,
🌼welcome the "other"
🌼embrace all who are members of the body of Christ [everyone]
🌼intentionally collaborate

every community is multicultural when one considers the various cultures;
🌼ethnic demographics,
🌼age,
🌼gender,
🌼 economic status,
🌼education level,
🌼political orientation

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