Post by caressa on Aug 29, 2010 13:41:51 GMT -5
So many people struggle with the 'God" concept. Many people have heard the word and left the room. Contempt prior to investigation.
This is a spiritual program. It is not a religious program. Many religious people come to recovery. Many non-religious people come to recover. They all have a chance to recover.
All religions are welcomed. Not one religion is the righ tone or the wrong one, it is all each individual's belief. As I like to say, "My religious beliefs enhance my spiritual beliefs and my spiritual beliefs enhance my religious ones." They have become much more meaning and deeper and have allowed me to grow my connected to my God, who can be Good Orderly Direction, from a Group of Drunks, who have passed their Goodness onto me.
As the readng says, "We are spiritual beings, we were born that way." Recovery is about getting in touch with that Inner Self.
Nothing can clear a recovery room faster than to hear religion spoken there. I know, I have a son who has faught against anything religious all of his life. He stopped wanting to go to Sunday School at 5 years old. He got it earlier than I did. I went to the Martyr's Shrine when I was 8 years and had to be taken out because all of a sudden I started crying in terror. My mother asked me what was the problem. I said, "Ghosts Mommy, Ghosts."
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For me, it is about remembering that my son has that same Inner Self that he chooses to ignore in today.
This is a spiritual program. It is not a religious program. Many religious people come to recovery. Many non-religious people come to recover. They all have a chance to recover.
All religions are welcomed. Not one religion is the righ tone or the wrong one, it is all each individual's belief. As I like to say, "My religious beliefs enhance my spiritual beliefs and my spiritual beliefs enhance my religious ones." They have become much more meaning and deeper and have allowed me to grow my connected to my God, who can be Good Orderly Direction, from a Group of Drunks, who have passed their Goodness onto me.
As the readng says, "We are spiritual beings, we were born that way." Recovery is about getting in touch with that Inner Self.
Nothing can clear a recovery room faster than to hear religion spoken there. I know, I have a son who has faught against anything religious all of his life. He stopped wanting to go to Sunday School at 5 years old. He got it earlier than I did. I went to the Martyr's Shrine when I was 8 years and had to be taken out because all of a sudden I started crying in terror. My mother asked me what was the problem. I said, "Ghosts Mommy, Ghosts."
eor.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=spuds&thread=9561
For me, it is about remembering that my son has that same Inner Self that he chooses to ignore in today.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.