Therefore, for today, I am feeling not very faithful. It doesn’t help that as I write posts like this, I try to save it as I write and either my computer or the server acts as if it has a resentment towards me

Reality – I’ve been trying to get something important to me and, in turn, to my responsibilities towards my family, solved for a year. To do this I have to contact a state agency. Background – I wasn’t able to fulfill this responsibility for quite some time and ultimately paid a legal price. God has helped me fix this in the past year and a half and it is no longer a problem but could become one again.

I’ve been taught this is a “do what you don’t want to do program.” I have also learned to give me, all of me, to the God I understand today, asking Him to “take away my difficulties so that victory over them might bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.”

Yeah – and – S.O.B.E.R. means Son Of a Bit**, Everything’s Real!

So, because this could affect my ex. and our children and because an oldtimer suggested it and it made sense with the help of HP, I did what I could do through my son to contact my ex. Knowing I’m not alone, I’m certain there are those who can understand how painful this process is for me. It is also simply morally right to fulfill the responsibility.

She called this morning. Almost nine years have passed since the last time we spoke. She had put forth an effort prior to calling to have some resources for me. I was thankful. I’ll leave it up to your imagination where my emotions went during this call. Don’t forget, I’m a real alcoholic…

I followed up. Made the phone call. Nothing. Same results as before. Nothing. Ought I mention that I said a few prayers during this? I’m not happy with God – right now. I’ll get over it and will move on. My faith however, has been deeply bruised.

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Losing Faith

It was during this time of emotional upset that the b5 team learned to make use of Steps 3 and 11;

3. – Let Go and Let God

11. – Praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out.

Thanks to our tech guys!!!

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b5 Learns To Practice 3 and 11

Definite Proof, September 1958, Volume 15 Issue 4

COUNSEL (to police witness): “But if a man is on his hands and knees in the middle of the road, that does not prove he is drunk.”

Policeman: “No, sir, it does not. But this one was trying to roll up the white line!”

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Once Over Lightly, April 1980, Volume 36 Issue 11

MAYBE SHE’D REACHED the same state of desperation as the wife in this story from H. V. of Bhopal, India.

The woman announced to her drunken spouse, “The day before yesterday you came home yesterday. Yesterday you came home this afternoon. If you come home today tomorrow, you’ll discover that I left you yesterday.”

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Ham on Wry, March 1989, Volume 45 Issue 10

AN OLD DOCTOR stopped at the same bar every evening for years, according to Robert E. of Blacksburg, Va. And each night he ordered the same drink: a walnut daiquiri.

One day, they ran out of walnuts, and the bartender decided to use hickory nuts instead, thinking Ole Doc would never notice. But he did. “This drink is terrible,” he complained. “What is it?”

The barkeep replied, “That’s a hickory daiquiri, Doc.”

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I Could Use The Laugh