My name is Phil and I'm an alcoholic. This blog documents my journey on the "road of happy destiny," the ups and downs of building a new way of life for myself, and hopefully some miracles along the way.
I want to draw your attention to a scandal of Alaskan proportions. I was horrified to read of a Sunday School teacher tormenting preschoolers with terrifying visions of death. I can only be thankful my own toddler has not been subjected to such a monstrous ordeal.
posted by Phil @ 8/21/2005 08:21:00 PM
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1. We admitted we were powerless over alcoholâthat our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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"...If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
1. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness
2. We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it
3. We will comprehend the word serenity
4. We will know peace
5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others
6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear
7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain insight into our fellows
8. Self-seeking will slip away
9. Our whole attitude and outlook will change
10. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us
11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us
12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them..."
If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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AAahhhh! Phil your terrible! My nightmares of that day were just starting to go away.
In case anyone mistakenly thinks I'm truly upset... this is my comment over in Bossco's blog:
This story is so funny, I keep thinking about it and laughing. Poor Bossco! You handled it so well -- there's just no telling what kids will do or say! :)
I had to share it on my blog in case any of my readers missed it. And since you felt so bad about the poor little girl, I had to give you a hard time, too. ;)
Truth is, I would be happy to put my son in your Sunday School class any time!
Awwww, thanks Phil.
people die?
Believe it or not, I actually taught Sudany School a few years ago. It was a very hip, open urban church. I however, had the senior pastor's youngest and most sociopathic son in my class. I would have given anything to make him burst into tears.
poor bossco
Off topic here, I like the poll thingie, but after you have voted and visit again, there is no way to view the results of the poll?
Kingjo: I don't remember you being my Sunday School teacher...
Shan: Congratulations! Glad to see you home from your honeymoon! :)
Blue: Likewise... I don't know why it took me until playing Twister with you at the party at Kingjo's place to get to know you. LOL
Scott: Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available representative. Our staff of experts is working around the clock here at RECRUM International Recovery Systems to ensure your visit to this site is pleasant. Your call is important to us...
uhhh... I switched it to a new host, since my first one seemed down a lot. Plus, it's a javascript popup and the browsers seem to be a little cranky about that. Then, I was messing with some new gadgets and that REALLY f**ked it up. My perl and javascript are about as fluent as my Icelandic. All in all, you're just lucky you don't get the Blue Screen of Death when you open my blog.
Anyway, I think I've got it cleaned up now. In IE, if it blocks the popup, try pressing "Ctrl" when you click on the "Vote!" button. That should bring up the results window.
uh phil whats going on with your blog?
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