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.
The number evacuated, the number who stayed behind, the number leaving the Helldome, convention center and airport, the number picked up off rooftops, etc... There just aren't enough people who got out. The NOLA Missing Persons thread is over 20,000 posts. I'm dreading the next few weeks.
posted by Phil @ 9/04/2005 11:22:00 AM
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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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My figures (done in my head, without benefit of guacamole) were more like 10,000-12,000. But I was never that good at math.
I hope we're both wrong and that many more got out that we just don't know about.
Houston hotels alone were full the day the hurricane hit. That's over 50,000 rooms. Many actually DID leave as requested.
I pray that the vast majority of people posting on NOLA will be reunited with their families, friends and neighbors, safe and sound. I pray that 10-12K turns out to be way too high. Dare we hope the number turns out to be in the hundreds, after all?
Hey I just hovered over your name linked on the right and your pic popped up! If I messed discussion on this sorry, I'm a bit slow! Great picture! :-)
Grace: Nope, I didn't advertise my "Easter eggs." :) But be sure to hover over the link to your blog...
Wow, that is neat Phil! Are you sharing your secret?
On the other note, I've heard thousands didn't make it. But the brighter side is that many just haven't been able to contact eachother. One of our friends parents live in Biloxi, his dad was out of town when the storm hit and they couldn't find his mom for days but thankfully she finally turned up unharmed. I feel awful for them all. They also keep showing people's pets stranded on the news. Every shot of an animal I've seen was of them leaving them to fend for themselves. Some clinging to trees, others stuck on roofs. That just breaks my heart too.
Bossco: I'm so glad your friend's mom is okay. I pray there will be thousands more stories like that. The stories of small children separated from their parents while boarding buses are just awful.
Re the Easter eggs: I found some code online at this site. All it took was a page of stylesheet code, 12 pages of javascript code, quite a bit of tweaking the links, and specifying a particular version of HTML in the meta tags.
Wow, you've been busy, looks great! And ALL it took was 12 sheets of .js etc, etc??!! :-)
Grace: Yeah, I just type the javascript off the top of my head, and it always works just fine. LOL
Trust me, it was a straight copy and paste of the (duly acknowledged) code I found. :)
Ha ha, I'm the same, copy and paste then wonder how it works! It just sounded SO impressive! lol :-)
Yes Phil the next few weeks are scary. I am glad that God is in charge because otherwise we are screwed.
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