The Art Of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not one of the most easy things to do or expect someone else to do. Our past has a way of reminding us of the mess we made, it seems that people love to remember the bad things and not the good things about us. I look at forgiveness as a way to help me continue to build and strengthen myself. I look at forgiveness as a way of releasing unnecessary anger, hate, and rage which can only hold me back from growing into a better person. When people have a problem forgiving you don't get discourage, don't give them the comfort of seeing you respond in a negative manner. What they don't realize is that in order for you to approach them you had to go through the same process they now need to forgive you. I realize that the ones who cry "Lord,Lord" are simply fooling themselves. Why expect God to forgive you for your mistakes if you can't forgive your neighbor. I believe that today is as good a day to practice what I preach. I want the lady who has been writting me in anger to know that I am truly sorry if I have known you in the past and caused you any hardship. I want you to know that my life has not always been that of a good person. I am sure that along the way I stepped on lots of people and they stepped on me. I have made a tremendous amount of mistakes that I am trying extremely hard to change. I hope you can forgive me whoever you are. I also hope that God blesses you with lots of happiness and joy. I may never see you but I want you to know that lessens can be taught by anyone at any time. Thank you and may god pour out his blessings on you .
Not such a bad person anymore, Ron Eddings

Walking Or Talking

There are some that talk the talk

There are some that walk the walk

Those who talk the talk

can't walk the walk

Because they are too busy talking.

I will bet that when you look at your own life

you realize that you don't have any room

to look at someone Else's.

Sometimes we are idiots and don't even realize it.

The Recovery Question

I have gone to the rooms of recovery now for a little while and I get a little frustrated at the old timers who have a few years of clean time under their belt. I don't mean to lessen their recovery by any means, I commend them all on what they have accomplished. My concern is their attitude of indifference towards any approach to talk about the way a person got clean other than N.A. I myself got off drugs by asking God to save my life, he answered my prayers and removed the desire to stop using. I mentioned this in a meeting and I received an immediate response from an old timer. He said this is not a religious program so don't get it twisted. My response to that remark is, you're right, it's not a religious program, However! it is a spiritual program and God is mentioned so much in the books it will make your head spend. I sit in those rooms and I hear the concerns of people with two to ten years clean. They wonder why their life has not blossomed into something more. Why are they still having relationship problems and why they still have the need to get high. I have even heard old timers who don't want me to get it twisted say, why has my life not been blessed? The answer is simple, The program is based on spiritual principles and the steps are set up for each person to be prepared for the twelveth step, the spiritual awakening. At that step is when you have truly turned your will and your life over to God. If you reach this awakening you become a person who is clean and serene. Your life as you understand it will began to evolve. Relationships will grow, opportunities began to knock. Life as you have known it will no longer exist and the new life you were doing the steps for will start to come to form. For all you recovering addicts and alcoholics maybe , just maybe the newcomer who got saved in church and smiles everyday and shares how they believe that they can conquer the world knows something we don't. I believe they have gotten the eleventh step before they ever set foot in those rooms and God is using the other eleven steps as a tool to keep them clean and serene. So I ask the question, who's got it twisted, the newcomer or you. It seems to me that the old timers are not happy because they are clean but they are not experiencing real recovery, the spiritual awakening. Maybe the true higher power of their choice is the one sitting next to them and not God.

I Am Sorry Lord

I was listening to the news and I heard that the town of Gastonia was trying to get rid of God . I then heard that another town wanted to remove God from the Lords prayer when it was read during city council meetings. I became very disturbed by this and I began to wonder why someone would, first allow that to happen and, second want it to happen in the first place. It got me to thinking back to when I was a kid and the picture of Jesus hanging on the wall at my grandmothers house. I grew up in the sixties and seventies so in those days racism was prevalent. I always wondered why that picture look nothing like me or anyone in my family. I use to shy away from whites because that picture that represented the almighty was the same color as they were. It was much later in life that I read revelations and realized that the almighty was more like me than I thought and I quote" His head and hair were white like wool,as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were bronze glowing like in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing water"rev 1,14&15. When I read this I felt a peace come over me like you never felt. I realized right then that man went through a lot of trouble to make a race of people look and fill inferior. I hope you don't think that someone willing to do that to make themselves look great and own the world would not hesitate to take prayer out of schools, take God out of the lords prayer, or even get rid of prayer in public places. My friends you are fighting a spiritual war and believe me when I say that God is watching our every move. If you don't believe what I've said stay tune, more will be revealed. Our world is falling apart and laws are being past everyday that gets rid of the Lord Our God. It is ironic that we just so happen to live in the bible belt where organizations like the Southern Babtist convention and other agencies like them have become obsessed with power and prestigue but have forgotten the reasons they were placed in positions of leadership. We say we are christians but we would rather be showered with gold now instead of later.