Wow!
Ted L.
I don't know if this frail human body and spirit can handle the awesome
power of this program. Talk about a spiritual awakening. I've been kind
of sitting on the 6th and 7th steps, as well as the 1st part of the 5th,
primarily because they are so intangible. Our last Saturday's meeting was
on the 6th and I came away feeling I had almost worked through that one,
but maybe not just quite.
From the opening chord on the organ for the prelude the Ash Wednesday
service yesterday was so intense for me I almost could not perform my part
as a member of the choir in the service. Everything just seemed to come
togther. It is impossible to put in words what the music was and did ...
and, even stranger yet, I found at the end that it was completely
improvised by the organist and would be impossible ever to hear again!
Almost immediately after the prelude was a set of confessional prayers --
by the time we were half way through them I realized I was doing those 5th,
6th, and 7th steps then and there and I still choke up as I write this with
how I felt. And the feeling continued throughout the service; even the
short sermon, about which I can remember very little, seemed aimed directly
at me and where I was in the AA program. As I recall,
I could find all of the 12 steps, each in its won way, somewhere in that single
service -- quite unintentionally, but also so natural and powerfully.
Again, Wow!
Thanks to all of you for being here, may you all find something
similar.
Ted L.
Arved Grass
>
> Thanks to all of you for being here, may you all find something
> similar.
>
> Ted L.
Big happy ((((((((((((((((((((((T)))))))))))))))))) for you! I never
never know when my PGTS (power greater than self) will light my path. I
am just glad it happens.
My prayer for this day, (paraphrased 3rd. 7th and 11th step prayers):
TYG for this day, please help me stay sober as I go about my daily life,
If, in this 24 hour period, I am meant to be of use in carrying your
message to those who suffer, please know I am willing to follow your
path.
Thank You for the Grace which keeps me sober, the joy which keeps me
coming back, the sense of purpose that redeems my life as a practicing
alcoholic, You have shown me that nothing is wasted. If I am supposed to
,let me share the comfort I have found in becoming a useful person
again. They will be done. Love Anna
Ted, I am so happy for you. Magic Anna
Beth Zimmerman
Ted L. wrote:
<snip>
> as a member of the choir in the service. Everything just seemed to come
> togther. It is impossible to put in words what the music was and did ...
And the light came on. I'm really happy for you, Ted. That's the way
it happens sometimes. I use to hate the saying, "If you don't know
there's no explination possible, and when you do know, no explination is
necessary." Until what happened to you, happened to me, and then I
understood. It's like I tell the ladies I sponsor. My job is to keep
them entertained until the miracle happens.
BethZ
advance bionics
Ted L. wrote:
good stuff deleted)
Yeah! Cool program, ain't it?
Dave
5.30.95.
David King
In article <anon-11957-ya02318...@news.mr.net>,
anon-...@anon.twwells.com says...
>
>I don't know if this frail human body and spirit can handle the awesome
>power of this program. Talk about a spiritual awakening.
>>>>>>snipping for brevity<<<<<<<<
>As I recall,
>I could find all of the 12 steps, each in its won way, somewhere in that
single
>service -- quite unintentionally, but also so natural and powerfully.
>
>>>>>snipped again<<<<<<
I loved your post. I do believe that if I am _willing_ to stay sober, as
_honest_ as I can be and if I keep an _open mind_, the steps will work _me_,
not the other way around. I think this is where men generally have a harder
time with the program than women (he said, slightly taken aback by his
willingness to make so broad a generalization in public): I think men have a
tougher time feeling their intuitions and trusting them, but I think this is
where one is led eventually via the 10th, 11th and 12th steps.
And one doesn't even have to be in church for it to happen - it's spiritual,
not religious!
davidk
old fart in the corner
janic...@aol.com
>From the opening chord on the organ for the prelude the Ash Wednesday
>service yesterday was so intense for me I almost could not perform my part
>as a member of the choir in the service. Everything just seemed to come
>togther. It is impossible to put in words what the music was and did ...
>and, even stranger yet, I found at the end that it was completely
>improvised by the organist and would be impossible ever to hear again!
This is exactly how i feel with my friends Max and Hiram at three am in a cow pasture huddled up under a canopy of BLAZING stars at a bluegrass festival in south Georgia or Alabama, singing "In childhood I heard of a heaven, I wondered if it could be real, that there were sweet mansions eternal, way off, out there beyond the blue..." in absolutely stirring, hair raising beautiful three part harmony. And then Max and Hiram drink some more beer and I pop another diet coke, and we do another one. And you know, it so cool, the way God loves to listen to drunks sing just as much as he loves organs on ash wednesday....
Arved Grass
David
It Anna, I lost you, my email kept bouncing back. Interesting wk end.
Dr. Appt Mon. hope he will explain why no further pain meds are
authorized. Heard I am 'sposed to get in a pain clinic soon.
Meanwhile, back in as close to reality as our type gets :) It is 3:30
am and I need to try to go back to bed again, wish me luck.
Hope you get this and will stay in contact. I felt enormously cheered by
your understanding of my situation. I just want it to stop...now...
this is getting old and I am very very tired of it. if I had parts
under warrenty you know I'd be at the "backstore,the legstore 1st thing.
Unfortunately we don't come with warrenty plans. I also have arthiritis
in various parts of my body, spine included, so *that* not helping...
yours, in a fresh understanding of pain and suffering,
My prayer today
Thank You God! for this day, for my pain,
for the joy of living sober, for discovery
for my peace, for the Love You share w/ us
each day
Please help me remember that nothing in Your
world happens by mistake. Grant me courage
and strength as I go thru my day.
Best to you this morning. Anna
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