On 30 Dec 2005 12:11:22 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:

>"Recovery Options for the New Year"
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> The New Year is coming up and many of us make New Year's resolutions,
>so I'd like to take this time to awaken those in need to some options
>for recovery if you suffer from addictions as I do. I do not need to
>wait to the years end to take self survey, since doing written
>inventory work and introspection is part of my 12 step work. I started
>with 12 step programs in 1974 and am now in 8 - 12 step programs
>myself. The 12 step programs branched out from Alcoholics Anonymous and
>all operate more or less along the same principles of the 12 Steps and
>12 Traditions of AA.

There is a way to regain your life and be happy but you will have to
renounce the 12-Steps in order to find out.
Been there, done that!

From The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English
Language:

Submit - v.t. to cause to undergo || to offer (oneself) of one's free
will,
[to submit oneself to an ordeal]

Surrendering_to_God is not a Christian teaching. God is NOT OUR
ADVERSARY.
Surrendering implies that we have no choice in the matter while
"submission",
though similar, retains our free choice. Submission to God IS a
Christian teaching.
There is a spirit who masquarades as God, who says he is god and he
will use any
means to get you to devote yourself to him and his cause. THIS spirit
is the one
that wants us to surrender NOT God.
Any spirit that wants us to "surrender" is NOT GOD BY NATURE (Gal
4:8).

IF you are Christian and are involved in 12-Steppery then I urge you
to look more closely at your chosen Recovery Program and see what you
find.
http://my.tbaytel.net/nitesky/12-step/index.html
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Regards
Gordie