Freedom From Bondage

10/24/2025

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

10/20/2025

The synergy of HOW
The three principles form a dynamic, interconnected cycle:
Honesty enables open-mindedness: By being honest with yourself about your struggles, you become more open-minded to exploring different perspectives and solutions.
Open-mindedness strengthens willingness: A receptive attitude towards new ideas and possibilities leads to an increased willingness to try new approaches.
Willingness reinforces honesty: The willingness to take action and make changes solidifies your commitment to honesty and continuous self-assessment.
This cycle creates a foundation for personal transformation, allowing you to move forward by facing the truth, embracing change, and taking necessary action. Willingness
Willingness is the readiness to take action, especially in the face of challenges. It is a choice to engage with a situation or experience, including uncomfortable emotions, without resistance. Honesty is the quality of being truthful, transparent, and fair in one's words, actions, and thoughts. It is considered a fundamental virtue that builds trust and integrity. Open-mindedness
Open-mindedness is the receptiveness to new ideas, arguments, and evidence, and the willingness to reconsider one's own beliefs. An open-minded person is receptive, not necessarily gullible, and is capable of critical judgment

10/20/2025

Oldtimer said, "God's grace is sufficient. But for the addict /alcoholic, whose life is dependent upon the growth and maintenance of spirituality, His grace is the very essence of life itself. For without the grace He bestows upon us in the Twelve Steps, we would perish under the lash and yoke of addiction/ alcoholism.

In the Steps, we find an abundant feast prepared before us in the face of our enemy, drugs and or alcohol. An enemy that seems to blind us with pleasure while delivering us death on the installment plan, one drink,hit,line,pill,needle, at a time. In gratitude, we commit ourselves to serving God because we have been well served by Him.

Every day, we awaken we have been overpaid, and every breath we take is a demonstration of His omnipotence. We are the walking dead that he has restored to abundant life. His life giving grace has flowed into our life through the program. When we give away what has been freely given us, we are rewarded with even more grace.

God's yoke is easy, and His burden is light. In His celestial bargain, He empowers us with a daily reprieve from our fatal malady, so long as we give to the sick and suffering alcoholic/addict the grace He has bestowed upon us. God's grace will always materialize if we are rigorously honest about the destruction of the self-centeredness addiction bred within us.

In recovery, we will always receive more than what we give. No matter how much time, energy, and effort we give of ourselves, we are rewarded with much more grace than we deserve. This unmerited favor was waiting for us long before we arrived in the fellowship. Prior to that, God's grace came to us in the form of His mercy. He kept us alive long enough to reach the rooms of recovery where our salvation awaited us.

Unfortunately, many come into the rooms of recovery and remain on the shores of doubt instead of trudging the high road to salvation from their deadly malady. Rather than climb the path and build their life on rock solid recovery, they remain on the shores and try to build a foundation on the shifting sands of the fellowship. Eventually, the tide comes in, and they are swept away along with the sand upon which the foundation of their sobriety lay.

If we are to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body, we can no longer fool ourselves into the lack of value that lies in self-centeredness. Addicts and alcoholics are takers. We take and take and take, giving nothing in return and always demanding more than we deserve.

We must be rid of this selfishness, or we will ride it to our fatal demise drink,drug or both in hand. We can not rid ourselves of selfishness, but God grants us ample opportunities to rise above it. However, steep the price we pay for His way of life, we find the reward gets infinitely more wonderful as time passes.

We can not serve two masters. Selfishness is an agent of our disease. We must take the selfless action God prescribes in order to banish it from our lives. Our self-centered perspective on life will always result in selfish actions. Therefore, we must act on the vision of God's will for us every day.

God only wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. His will for the addict/alcoholic is found in the Spiritual way of life. Recovery, unity, and service are the foundations we build our lives that we may withstand the storms that are sure to arise in our sober life.

We give our hearts to God, and He gives us the fellowship we crave. We give our minds to God, and we are restored to sanity. In this state, we give our body to maintain the unity of the fellowship, and through the spirit of service, we afford other addicts and alcoholics the life-giving grace of recovery to which has God delivered us."

10/13/2025

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking and using as intensive work with other alcoholics and addicts. It works when other activities fail... To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends—this is an experience you must not miss."

10/12/2025

Do you know the difference between honesty and truth ? Honesty means that your words and your deeds are consistent with your experience .Truth means that the way you live is consistent with reality . Remeber it is our behavior that will convince them more than our words . Committment over time equals trust . RSAHABD !

10/06/2025

10/06/2025

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Ten Unknown Facts About
Founding: Tesla was founded in 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning,
not Elon Musk. Musk joined the company as a major investor and became its public face.
Model Naming Quirk: Tesla’s car lineup follows a playful pattern: Model S, 3, X, and Y.
Elon Musk has said it was meant to spell "S3XY," with the number 3 replacing an "E."
Battery Focus: Tesla's breakthrough isn’t just in electric cars but also in battery technology. Tesla has invested heavily in creating powerful and long-lasting batteries, not only for cars but also for energy storage solutions like Powerwall.
Autopilot and Full Self-Driving: Tesla’s Autopilot is an advanced driver-assistance system, but it’s not fully autonomous. The company is working on Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, which could eventually enable true autonomous driving.
Gigafactories: Tesla operates massive manufacturing plants known as Gigafactories, located in the U.S., China, and Germany. These factories are integral to Tesla’s ability to scale production and reduce costs.
SpaceX Connection: Tesla and SpaceX, both run by Elon Musk, share more than just a CEO. The companies collaborate on technology, and SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket even launched a Tesla Roadster into space as part of a 2018 test flight.
Sustainable Vision: Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.
In addition to electric cars, the company is a leader in solar power and energy storage solutions.
Over-the-Air Updates: Tesla was the first car manufacturer to allow over-the-air software updates, letting owners download new features and improvements to their cars without visiting a dealership.
AI and Robots: Tesla’s AI Day event introduced Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot designed to handle dangerous or
repetitive tasks, showcasing Musk’s vision for AI and robotics beyond automobiles.
Environmental Impact: Tesla has reduced the overall carbon footprint of its vehicle manufacturing and is
working on creating fully recyclable batteries, making it a leader in the green automotive revolution.

10/04/2025

Oldtimer said, "Seek not for God, but seek for the truth, and it is in the discovery of truth that you find God. The Twelve Steps are built upon a foundation of truth. When we apply them to our lives with rigorous honesty, we find God and are blessed with the power we need to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body.

Divine means true to God. We trudge a divine path when we follow the program of recovery. A program that has brought redemption to millions of addicts and alcoholics lost in a hell of their own making. It is through this process that we discover our true selves and find freedom from that which consumes us as we obsessively consume it.

We are not saints, but we have within us a hidden spark of divinity that grows as we uncover, discover, and discard that which is not of our true nature. We find we are not what we have done, but at our core, we are the essence of that which God created. Our discovery of this essence is the spiritual awakening that brings about recovery from a fatal malady. Once we have this experience, we are no longer asleep dreaming we are awake but have awakened to Great Reality within.

On the path to divinity, we evolve spiritually as we identify our shortcomings and ask God to remove these defects of character, which stand in the way of our usefulness to Him and our fellows. We then ask for the power to do His bidding. By acknowledging God as our Creator, we become true to who we are and Whose we are. With the birth of this humility, we embrace our divine destiny and bit by bit, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, God reveals Himself to us through our continuous work with the Steps.

As we live His way of life His strength is perfected in our weakness, and we fit ourselves for the divine task of lifting the lost souls of alcoholics and addicts from the pit of misery in which drugs and or alcohol had deposited them. No earthly task can be too great for us to complete this divine task. Through our pursuit of the truth, we have recovered and have been given the power to help others find their footing on the path of redemption.

Know thyself, and to thine ownself be true. For it is in gaining knowledge of ourselves that we gain knowledge of our Creator. In our vigorous pursuit of the truth, we can leave no stone unturned. We can not build our foundation of recovery by skimping on the cement and trying to make mortar without the sand of truth that binds us to the Great Reality.

As we uncover, discover, and discard that which hinders our spiritual development, God peels away our defects of character, and we are exposed to our true character. And it is in the channel of truth that His Power flows into our lives, allowing us to do that which we could never do by ourselves. One day at a time, we reconstruct a life ruined by alcohol,drugs or both, into an abundant life of divine grace that blesses all who cross our path."

09/25/2025

Its impossible for me to practice love and tolerance while still practicing self-centeredness.

09/13/2025

We cried and we died (There but for the grace of God, go I):

We died of pneumonia, in furnished rooms where they found us three days later when somebody complained about the smell.

We died against bridge abutments and nobody knew at the time if it was su***de or something worse.

We probably didn't know either except in the sense that it was always su***de.

We died in hospitals, our stomachs huge and distended and there was nothing they could do.

We died in police cells, never knowing whether we were guilty or not. We hung ourselves with our braces. We slashed our wrists so the life blood flooded away from us to give us peace at last.

We went to priests, they gave us pledges and they told us to pray, they told us to go and sin no more ,We tried, we cried and we died.

We died of overdoses, we died in bed, and we died in straightjackets while suffering the DT's seeing creeping, slithering, shuffling things jumping out of the walls playing that awfulmusic that went on and on.

We went to doctors and they gave us stuff that would make us sick when we drank on the principle it was so crazy, it just might work. In despair with how to deal with us they just shook their heads and told us to not to drink so much, "try to have just a couple of beers" they might have said. Just give it a real try they would say.

And we tried, and still we died. We And do you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.We drowned in our own vomit, or choked on it, our broken jaws wired shut. We died playing Russian Roulette and people thought we'd lost but we knew better. We died under the hooves of horses, under the wheels of vehicles, under the knives and boots of our fellow drunks.

We died in shame. And you know what was even worse? Even worse was that we couldn't believe it ourselves, that we had tried, we figured, we just thought we had tried, and we died believing that we didn't know what it meant to try.Yes, we did try, and still we died.

When we were desperate, or hopeful, or deluded enough to go for help, we went to people with letters after their names and prayed that they might have read the right books, that had the right words in them. so they could tell us what to do, never suspecting the terrifying truth that the right words, as simple as they were, had not been written yet. They were to come.

We died with a shotgun in our mouth with the back of our head blown away, or jumping off a bridge because we couldn't take any more.

We died under the Expressway with our hands tied behind us, with a bullet in the back of the head, because this time, the people that we disappointed were the WRONG PEOPLE.We died in convulsions with wet brains. We died incontinent and in disgrace, abandoned. If we were women we died degraded, because women have so much more to live up to. We so often died alone with nobody around at all..And although we tried ,we still died, and nobody cried.

And the very worst thing was that for every one of us that died, there was another thousand just like us who wished that they could die but had to continue in a living hell.

We went to sleep praying we would not have to wake up because what we were enduring was intolerable and we knew in our hearts that it wasn't ever going to change.

We died of one last cigarette, the comfort of it glowing in the dark. We passed out, the bed caught fire and we suffocated before our body burned. They said "he never felt a thing, maybe it was the best thing for him really".

Except sometimes we took our family with us.

Still we tried and still we died.Then, one day in a hospital room in New York City, one of us had what the book calls a spiritual experience, and he said to himself " this is it! I've got it, and I've got to share it". And so he began trying to give it away but we couldn't hear it.The man in New York was so sure he had it, he tried to love us into sobriety, but that didn't work. Love confuses drunks.

And he tried and he tried and still we died.

There were times we got his hopes up and then we broke his heart, because you see, that's what we do. The tragedy was, that every time we thought we thought that nothing could get worse, it did get worse.The miracle happened in June of 1935. It wasn't in Rome or Jerusalem or Mecca or Amritsar or even Dublin or Boston. It was in Akron Ohio when the man said, "I have to find a drunk because I need him as much as he needs me.

And so it happened that after thousands of years of people trying and dying alone a solution to our problem was conceived.Now we don't go to men of the cloth, to doctors, psychiatrists and people with letters after their names, we come to people who have been there. We come to each other and we try.And now, we don't need to cry and we don't have to die.

by Jack McC

09/09/2025

Oldtimer said, "We can speak of God with our lips all that we want, but the true reflection of our understanding of God shows in the way we move our hips. Do we move them in a closer walk with Him. If so, our treatment of our fellow man will be full of love, kindness, and respect. If not, we have to question our understanding of God.

If we are judgmental, we are reflecting a belief in a judgmental God. If we are resentful, we are reflecting a belief in an angry, spiteful God. If we are selfish and fearful, we are reflecting a belief in a limited, uncaring God lacking infinite abundance. If we are going to play the role God assigns and act as agents for His ever advancing creation, we must take into consideration the valuable suggestions the Big Book offers us.

God is the director who oversees not only our life but all of creation from the Alpha to the Omega. He has the script for how it all plays out. When we assume the role He assigns, we are rewarded with peace and serenity in the presence of chaos and confusion.

He is the Principal, and we are His agents who are empowered to do His business. He is the One who has all power. Something we desperately need if we are to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body. When we keep the spiritual channel clear, His power flows into our lives, purifies our heart and mind, and liberates us from our bo***ge to alcohol,drugs or both.

He is the Father who loves His children when they do their worst because He knows, in every situation, we are doing the best we can with the burden we have been given. His yoke is easy, and His burden is light. He will give rest to our weary soul whenever we are sick and tired of being sick and tired

And, finally, He is our Employer who provides what we need, so long as we keep close to Him and do His work well. We have a history that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we don't know what is best for us. So in gratitude we thank God for that which He has given us, that which He has taken away, that which He has left us with, and that which He has kept from us.

Eventually, we learn that sometimes not getting what we desire is truly a blessing in disguise, and that our greatest blessings come wrapped in boxes that we initially found unpleasant until we opened them to discover the contents inside.

When we draw near to God He reveals Himself to us in the face of everyone we meet. We no longer use people and love things. Instead, we become a lover of people and a user of things. We have no cause for anger, malice or fear, for God surrounds us wherever we go. And whatever need we can perceive, we find that even if we can't fulfill it, His grace is sufficient!"