"rosie read n' post" <readandpost@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> love you too darren!
> this prayer reminds me of what i interpret the 11 step to be!

fair enough

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> "Dudley Do Rite" <lemondrop17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Darren - Sorry I misinterpreted. If you care to, can you re-ask your
> > question and I can try again?
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> > "Darren" <darren@dazze.net> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> That's not what I asked, Steve.
> >>
> >> Darren
> >>
> >> "Dudley Do Rite" <lemondrop17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:bfWdnTJ3VPtjzR7enZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> >>> Darren - A cornerstone of recovery is being of active service (12th
> >>> step
> >> and
> >>> "faith without works is dead" (pg 88 BB).
> >>>
> >>> For this drunk, this prayer reminds me to keep getting out of my own
> >>> head
> >>> and think how I can be of service to others.
> >>>
> >>> steve
> >>>
> >>> "Darren" <darren@dazze.net> wrote in message
> >>> news:I_Hgf.1332$0o2.817@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> >>> >
> >>> > "rosie read n' post" <readandpost@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >>> > news:x6ugf.3521$js5.608@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> >>> >> November 21, 2005
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Daily Reflections
> >>> >>
> >>> >> A CLASSIC PRAYER
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Lord, make me a channel for thy peace - that where
> >>> >> there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there
> >>> >> is wrong. I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -
> >>> >> that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -
> >>> >> that where there is error, I may bring truth -
> >>> >> that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -
> >>> >> that where there is despair, I may bring hope -
> >>> >> that where there are shadows, I may bring light -
> >>> >> that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
> >>> >> Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than
> >>> >> to be comforted - to understand, than to be
> >>> >> understood - to love, than to be loved. For it is
> >>> >> by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by
> >>> >> forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying
> >>> >> that one awakens to Eternal Life.
> >>> >> Amen.
> >>> >
> >>> > Rosie, I love you to bits but what has that prayer got to do with
> >>> > alcoholism?
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Darren
> >>> >
> >>> >> TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 99
> >>> >>
> >>> >> No matter where I am in my spiritual growth, the
> >>> >> St. Francis prayer helps me improve my conscious
> >>> >> contact with the God of my understanding. I think
> >>> >> that one of the great advantages of my faith in
> >>> >> God is that I do not understand Him, or Her, or
> >>> >> It. It may be that my relationship with my Higher
> >>> >> Power is so fruitful that I do not have to understand.
> >>> >> All that I am certain of is that if I work the
> >>> >> Eleventh Step regularly, as best I can, I will
> >>> >> continue to improve my conscious contact, I will
> >>> >> know His will for me, and I will have the power to
> >>> >> carry it out.
> >>> >>
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