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My Saving Grace Moment

Tuesday December 4, 2007

Categories: Addiction/Recovery

Also fitting for Advent, is the "Saving Grace" moment in my life: that specific point in my past in which I took inventory and made a few changes.

I describe it in a blog post I wrote last year this time, "Gabriel and Directions." Click here if you want to read it.

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Anonymous
December 5, 2007 8:28 AM

Re -Larry Parker | December 4, 2007 10:36 PM

But those maps that G-d is providing ... I can't even find the map, let alone how to navigate it :-(

** It easy, actually, just walk in Yeshuah's shoes (but be careful, we ALL know where that path that led too ... dam! ... maybe that's the problem ... we ALL need to walk in our own shoes ... His path was not our path! ... Thanks for the directions Pops!)

LUV 2 ALL
Wisdum

Margaret Balyeat
December 5, 2007 2:45 PM

Re:Larry
We All know why adolexecent (and older boys subscribe to NG; you aren't fooling anyone but yourself (though perhaps five was a bit early to start) B I have always, like, t (biG, SURPRISE... been geographically challanged." My late father used to say (And on THIS subject he was 100% correct despite his tendancy to put me down) that if you blindfolded me, put me in front of our house, turned me around three times and then removed the blindfold I wouldn't be able to find my way home! One of my younger sisters is able to easily determine cardinal directions wherever she may be; I know only that Lake Michigan is to my west, so must figure it from there and if I can't visualize where the Lake is in relation to my present location, all is lost! I'm a LITTLE btter than I used to be thanks to the necessirty of teaching map skills to my students (the surest way to determine if you know something is to try to teach it to someone else)over the years, but I still wouldn't dare be a contestent on the reality show about racing from location to location to find the treasure! I CAN follow a map or written directions, but only if I'm told to turn right or left as opposed to east, west, north or south. For me spiritual maps are clearer. If my action will glorify God, it's the cottect way to go; if it will hurt the cause or a fellow human being, turn arund FAST!
wISDUM: It honestlt isn't hard to change your namr, the HARD part is getting it recognized nt various bureauacracies which have some influence over our lives. And sorry, i've read too many of your posts to accept the "simpleton or "fool on the hill" business; "Wisdum" is MUCH more apt as I believe i've mentioned before. And like it or not, your wise words HAVE been a "gift from God" to many of us here on B.B. and, I suspect, in your other interactions with others in your life, so don't fight it!

Larry Parker
December 5, 2007 3:12 PM

Hey, my parents subscribed for me, Margaret.

And besides, NG only does topless, not full frontal ;-P

Linda
December 16, 2007 10:03 AM

Could someone please tell me where someone with liver damage that
wants to quit drinking can go in New York State if they have no
insurance? Someone dear to me is in this situation and has agreed
to get help but has been told it may not be available as he does
not have insurance. Without the help of detox he will die! People
who wish to change should not be thrown away because they do not
have money or insurance. Is there some organization he can contact
that can help him? Thank you for taking the time to read this.
May your life be filled with peace! Lin

Thelma Malone
January 2, 2008 12:58 PM

Everyone say pray and God will see you through every thing you believe in so I pray,I need money to over come all this debt that iam in will God come and rescue me in a supernatural way and take awawy all my bills and let me live a peaceful life.Will there be a way man can help me.we have all these millionarie on earth and no one help people who just need money,everyone buy food, clothing,Christmas toys but no one think of helping some to getout of money problems,you have organzations pretending to help you they have to charge you to get out of debt.When my supernatural power bless me, my plan will be to bless some one else to over come.May God Bless Us All.

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