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gave it to my Higher Power. Aloha Family just got back from the post op meeting at the Medical Center on Oahu and then stay several more days with a calabash sister (calabash means very close friend from the past) and we had a great time doing catch up with each other which included my present wife. My former wife, the addict was her best friend in High School so there a some resentments with cobwebs still there. Any who we spent a buncha time talking and toward the end of the stay both she and m wife at the same time tell me "you're a PREACHER"!! I've never been called that before especially by two favorites in my life at the same time!! I did a knee jerk reaction with a smile and they confirmed again at the same time "Yes you are"!! LOL...I did an inventory and admitted to myself I didn't know stuff about me like that and couldn't see it and no one had ever complained about it before and was it a bad thing and could they be wrong (LOL - an outwiggle)...could they be right? Investigation is a great tool at arriving into the Serenity Prayer...Preacher!!!??
And then the old evidence arrived which doesn't confirm their inventory and does support the possibility. My mother and some of her sisters thought and desired that I become a priest when I was very young...I of course didn't want their wish...but could their MOJO still be swishing around in spite of me? HUH? I have to laugh out loud because one of my attempts with my Alcoholic/Addict one morning when she was very hung over was to try to hand her the bible and learn something. What I learned from that was that Bibles can fly like boom-a-rangs cause it came flying back at me.
So Higher Power's got it...may take it to my sponsor also...scary. Thanks for letting me preac.....eeerrrr share. (((((hugs)))))
Hey Jerry I have never felt that your"Shares: were "preachy "--You do confirm your belief in a Power Greater then Yourself and validate why-- but I do not consider that being "preachy".
I guess I would have to ask what they define as being a "Preacher" then we can go from there You are just right the way you are. :):
I'm taking a light touch on it and yes I will use that tool; asking them to define preachy as they understand it. Mahalo Hotrod for the suggestion. (((hugs)))
You have never came off preachy to me and I am touchy when people preach at me. I do agree you are passionate, but our cause tends to make you passionate after finding a life line in a dark world! Sending you love and support!
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