Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Over the past 20 days or so I have written and published a 10 part series: Learning to Trust. With in that series I shared with you a series you of awareness’s that brought me to a place of surrender. In that place of surrender, I shared with you that I … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Learning to Trust Part 10
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 for context. Thank you. Through completing my 4th Step inventory and then by meeting with my sponsor to do a 5th Step, "Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs" I had a series of spiritual awakenings. These spiritual awakenings forever changed … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 9
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7, Part 8 for context. Thank you. By completing my 4th step inventory I was able to identify patterns and how those patterns impacted my relationships -- with God, myself and other people. I needed to examine the patterns of my resentments because my resentments were killing me -- drinking poison and hoping … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 8
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7 for context. Thank you. Because I realized what I had been doing -- in and through my relationships -- was no longer working I became willing to do whatever was suggested to me. Consequently, I was encouraged to examine my relationships through taking a thorough and fearless moral inventory of myself. My … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 7
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 for context. Thank you. With time, I realized that I needed to replace the demand of perfection with the pursuit of excellence. I realized that I needed to replace the messages of old that told me that "I did not measure up to expectations..." with the realization that my good was good enough. I needed to cease from my … [Read more...]
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