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It Ain’t No Fast Food

   January 20, 2025  Leave a Comment on It Ain’t No Fast Food 0 Likes 3 Views
Well it ain’t no fast food… 


Have you ever noticed that there are certain foods and meals that “stick with you”, so to speak? 


In my world, homemade meals with real and healthy ingredients tend to do the most good for me. 


We have a few favorite restaurants that offer entrees like this as well. 


It just seems to me that whenever fast food is the choice, I am either hungry again in a short time or sleepy from the carb coma I just gorged on. 


It’s the same with our spiritual nutrition. 


When we digest the Word and apply it to our lives, it sticks with us and does our body good. 


How are you spiritually feeding yourself? 


Consider your Source and as always… 


Check your experience… 


 “Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things” Big Book pg. 100 


Lord, let us nourish ourselves from Your Spirit and Your Word, AMEN. 


“Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty….I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life” John 6: 35, 47 


Have a blessed day y’all! 




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Walk By Faith

   January 19, 2025  Leave a Comment on Walk By Faith 0 Likes 3 Views
Another way to see things….. 


We use our eyes to see all that this world has to offer. 


That’s part of being human. 


We are also equipped with another way to see. 


Our Spiritual nature inside of helps us to see in a different way. 


We cannot see the air we breathe, yet we take it for granted that it’s here. 


We naturally take it for granted that when we flip a light switch the light will come on and when we put the key into the ignition the car will start. 


This comes from FAITH. 


We learn by doing and by feeling. 


This is how we develop our spiritual eyes. 


Now it’s a fact that we all crawl before we walk. 


So we cannot develop spiritual eyes overnight. 


Like the air we breathe, light switch, and the key in the ignition, we build up a continued and familiar experience over time that allows us to believe it will work. 


It’s the same with our faith. 


We must build on it and grow it so that we can rely on it in times of uncertainty. 


Check your experience…. 


“In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves.” Big Book pg. 70 


Lord, open the eyes of our hearts through building and growing our faith in You and Your Word, AMEN. 


“For we walk by faith, not by sight” 2 Corinthians 5:7 


Have a blessed day Y’all!


Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible!


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Transforming Time

   January 17, 2025  Leave a Comment on Transforming Time 0 Likes 6 Views
Be transformed….. 


Those pesky expectations 


I sometimes allow to sneak in and dominate my thinking always cause me confusion when real everyday life fails to match up to the picture in my head of what it’s SUPPOSED to be like. 


I do my best to neither set expectations nor try to live by the expectations of others. 


Everyone is human, and like me, prone to faults, fears, and forgetfulness. 


 I have found through years of trial and error, that when I try to be present in the moment and work with what I have instead of what I think or feel I should have, my day and my life goes better. 


When those pesky expectations try to grab my attention and sway my thinking, I turn them over to God and stay in the moment trying to be of maximum service to those around me. 


Check your experience… 


“Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.” Big Book pg 86. 


Lord let us renew our minds and refresh our hearts with Your Spirit replacing our expectations, AMEN. 


“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,” Romans 12:2 


Have a blessed day Y’all!


Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 


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Flaws and Hang Ups

   January 16, 2025  Leave a Comment on Flaws and Hang Ups 0 Likes 5 Views
Those dang emotional flaws and mental hang ups… 


How are we supposed to know the difference between self-will and God’s will? 


 Experience and others have taught me that if I am giving my best effort without regard to fear, pride, envy, gluttony, greed, anger, or sloth then I am doing God’s will and not mine. 


IF I am focusing on my pride, anger, greed, lust, envy, greed, or sloth (PAGLEGS) then I am in self-will. 


AA’s Joe and Charlie said best with their explanation of Steps 6 and 7; “I don’t do what I want to do. (Self-will) I just do what I ought to do. (God’s will)” 


I find I can keep my self-will in check by checking my motives and efforts… 


Check your experience… 


“Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.” Big Book pg. 62 


Lord help us to recognize our emotional flaws and park our mental hang-ups in those times when our self-will seeks to overturn Your will for us, AMEN. 


“The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other.” Galatians 5:17 


 Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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If Nothing Changes…

   January 15, 2025  Leave a Comment on If Nothing Changes… 0 Likes 7 Views
If nothing changes then nothing changes…


None of us are perfect. We each have things that need our attention and cannot be fixed without our participation and ownership. 

We need to own our challenges, struggles, and shortcomings. 


The good news is that God can and will help us if we stay willing and provide the effort! 


When He can see our efforts fueled by our motivation to change, then He can heal us! 


Ask yourself if you are participating in your own improvement and as always… 


check your experience… 


“..we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort.” Big Book pg 22. 


Lord fill our hearts with the desire to change and the drive to provide the needed efforts, AMEN.


 “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.” Luke14:27 


Have a blessed day y’all! 


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Happiness Source

   January 14, 2025  Leave a Comment on Happiness Source 0 Likes 5 Views
Happiness comes from…. 


Now I know this is not your experience, but my self-will is greedy for things that my delusional head likes for me to think that I need. 


For me, my self-will is greedy for attention and for worldly things. 


It likes me to think that in order to be happy I need a Harley, a Corvette, a bigger house, and on and on it goes. 


While these things are nice, my happiness does NOT depend on them. 


The minute it does, then I have a major problem. 

Luckily, I was blessed with the opportunity to find my life in AA through the Big Book and the 12 Steps, and they led me back to the Lord who has given me a life better than my wildest dreams filled with a marriage, a family, ministry, friends, and more blessings and happiness than I ever deserved. 


I find that I need to check my motives and efforts to measure my happiness. 


When I am able to do this I see that my happiness does not come from things, rather it comes from my relationship with God and those wonderful folks in my life. 


What do you measure your happiness with?.. 


Check your experience…


“Selfishness-self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity,…” Big Book pg 62. 


Lord, please remove the selfish thoughts driven by our self-centered fear, pride, and greed that block our hearts from Your will and Spirit, AMEN. 


“Then He said to them, Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.” Luke 12:15 


Have a blessed day y’all! 


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Where Your Treasure Is…

   January 12, 2025  Leave a Comment on Where Your Treasure Is… 0 Likes 7 Views
For where your treasure is… 


We are what we do, say, and show. 


It’s hard for us to see this in ourselves, but our actions, behaviors, habits, and thoughts define us. 


Think about our friends and loved ones and how we remember them. 


For most of us, the memories of our friends and loved ones come from our experiences with them. 


How are we seen? 

What is first and foremost on our hearts generally dictates our manners, actions, and habits… 


Check your experience… 


“His change of heart was dramatic, convincing, and moving.” Big Book pg 55 


Lord, please fill our hearts with the gifts You have given us so that we may reflect Your love and grace on others, AMEN. 


“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Luke 12:34 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible!


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Armchair Quarterback

   January 11, 2025  Leave a Comment on Armchair Quarterback 0 Likes 5 Views
Armchair quarterback… 


I am a fan of football and other sports. 


Just because I watch a lot of sports does not qualify me to be an expert or a paid professional. 


I am neither skilled nor talented because I do not practice daily, and I don’t work to improve my performance to the highest possible level. 


Because of this, I am not known as an athlete. 


If you think about it, there are some other things in our lives where we are armchair quarterbacks. 


For instance, I enjoy watching Miss Tami build her amazing creations, yet I have no clue as to what tool she is using to saw, hammer, weld, cut, or shape! 


It can be the same with our faith if we are not intentional about it. 


God asks us to participate daily and to practice faith in all our affairs. 

 Are you an armchair quarterback with your faith?.. 


Check your experience… 


“Faith without works is dead.” Big Book pg. 88 


 Lord let us bring majestic faith, actionable habits, and servant behavior in our daily walk, AMEN.


 “…faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.” James 2:17 


Have a blessed day Y’all!


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I Can’t but HE Can

   January 10, 2025  Leave a Comment on I Can’t but HE Can 0 Likes 7 Views
I can’t….HE CAN… I think I will let HIM. 


Over the years I have learned that alone, I am powerless over people, places, and things. 


It’s when I turn the situations involving people, places, things, and situations over to God and seek His will that it turns out better than I expected. 


This is why I rely on the first three STEPS daily… 


Check your experience… 


“When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did.” Big Book pg. 52 


“Lord I am powerless and only through You is my life manageable, AMEN.” 


I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 


Have a blessed day y’all! 


Join me in looking at the things we face daily with passages from both the Big Book and Bible! 


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You ARE Enough!

   January 9, 2025  Leave a Comment on You ARE Enough! 0 Likes 7 Views
We ARE enough… 


I don’t know about you, but sometimes this magic magnifying mind of mine tries to tell me things that just are not true. 


It especially likes to try to convince me that I am not worthy and not “good enough” for this or that. 


It loves to try to get me to believe the illusion that I am nothing and have nothing to offer others! 


Thank goodness for AA, SCAA, the 12 Steps, and God’s Word. 


Through the fellowships of AA, SCAA, and CONSTANTLY working the 12 Steps, as well as being in God’s Word daily I know that what my mind wants me to believe is false and that I need not let it run my thoughts and actions. 


I am nowhere near perfect, but I can help others! 


We all matter and each of us has the ability to share and help another! 

Give what you got. 


Go with what you have and make your best effort. 


If you are truly seeking God’s will and your motives are of His spirit you will be amazed... 


Check your experience… 


“we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort” Big Book pg. 26 


Lord let us look to seek Your will and give our best efforts with what we have instead of allowing our self-will to delude us to thinking we can’t, AMEN. 


“Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people. And they all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had left over were picked up, twelve baskets full.” Luke 9: 16-17


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


What if you had a person who coached and mentored you in building a better life? 


Inspired 365 Life Coaching with Mark Farley!! 


https://www.faiththroughworksfellowship.org/inspired-365-life-coaching 


Want in? 


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