If you have ever pedalled on a bike against the wind, you can quickly recall the exhaustion and frustration of the never-ending grind of working against the wind. With every kilometre of distance covered, the wind is in your ears and pushing against your chest. Your shirt flaps in the breeze, and you come to resent the wind and the energy it sucks from you with every pedal stroke. It is unrelenting and merciless. And you are keenly aware of it. You hear it, you feel it, you work against it.
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I send notes to AAs every few days. These are meditations and thoughts on our Program. Below are excerpts from current notes, click on any of the pictures or titles to get the full article.
Older notes, from prior years, are contained in the newsletter archives.
It is difficult to learn something when you know it all
So true is the statement. So often I walk into meetings in business, conversations with friends, and prayers with God ‘knowing it all.’ There is no room to listen, much less learn. I already know it all.
How Good a Friend is God?
“If God is my friend, what does it say if all I do is give him a quick hello in the morning and a passing ‘good night’ as I go to sleep? If He is a really good friend, I will talk with Him during the day. I will check in during the day and ask for his thoughts and opinions. I will share my mental maps with him.”