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Chapt 4: Sobriety - A Spiritual Rest - p.127-142

Hi Folks,
This week we finish up Chapt 4: Sobriety - A Spiritual Rest - p.127-142.
I wanted to touch on something that I don't think we covered last week but that really struck me. On the last page of last week's reading (p127), Chuck C said in reference to the words of the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous:

Every time I read them, every time I talk about them, they're new. The words remain the same, but we don't. And it depends entirely where we are what they mean. They will always be more meaningful. They always take a new meaning, depending on where WE are. And we'll be walking up this ladder forever. A world without end, Amen. 

Sometimes we're at the ground level looking up at that enormous skyscraper and sometimes we're on the top floor looking down at the miniature city below. Our eyes see completely different things depending on our vantage point.  Likewise, our minds perceive  differently depending on where we are physically, emotionally and spiritually. 

To me that's the journey of recovery; as we travel down the road of happy destiny, the scenery changes, what we perceive changes, heck we might even find ourselves on a different road altogether. And we'll be walking up this ladder forever. A world without end, Amen.    

Regards,
David t.


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