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Uncover Discover Discard

   January 8, 2025  Leave a Comment on Uncover Discover Discard 0 Likes 6 Views
Uncover Discover Discard…


One of the best ways to move forward is to understand our past. 


Experience has taught me and those I trust and learn from that while we can learn from our past and benefit from these life lessons, it’s neither healthy, nor beneficial to allow the unprocessed pain and hurt from the past to control our thoughts, actions, and motives. 


It’s great to learn from both mistakes and successes, but when fear, anger, and even pride fuel the way we look at our past, it freezes our hearts and influences our minds negatively from the benefit of the life lesson. 


12 Step helps us to look at our past objectively. 


When we become willing to uncover the pains, shames, and hurts from our past we can discover how it still has a negative hold on us. 


This part of the 12 Step process allows us to then look at the event or experience and discard it from our heart. 


When we can Uncover, Discover, and Discard we are set free and can move forward. 


“We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path.” Big Book pg. 72 


Lord, we ask Your guidance as we look to grow from our past and no longer be a prisoner of it, AMEN. 


“And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19

Have a blessed day y’all!


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When Wants Overpower Needs

   January 7, 2025  Leave a Comment on When Wants Overpower Needs 0 Likes 6 Views
When WANTS overpower NEEDS…. 


There are few rules of life that I try to go by to keep my wants from overpowering my needs. 


For instance, I don’t go to the grocery store hungry, and I try not to make big decisions until I have had a chance to think it through, pray about it, and get advice from those I trust. 


I also try to respond instead of reacting. 


Now perhaps it’s different for you, but I have learned that my WANTS seem to be fueled by my pride, fear, resentment, and or greed. 


That puts me deep in self-will and away from God’s will for sure. 


Check your experience… 


“The greatest enemies of us are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.” Big Book pg. 145 


Lord help us to check our motives and efforts so that our self-will does not lead us to fear, resentment, or greedy actions, AMEN. 


“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it.” James 4:1-2 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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Our Environment

   January 6, 2025  Leave a Comment on Our Environment 0 Likes 10 Views
We become a product of the environment around us. 


Some of the things that influence our thoughts, actions, behaviors, and lives are good for us. 


Some are social, cultural, and even spiritual. 


Fashion, clothing, fit eating, and living are a few of many good influences we experience. 


I am still waiting for Leisure suits and mullets to come back into style! 


Then there is the environments of peer pressure, self-serving desires of the ego, pride, and negativity. 


These environments can lead to bad choices, poor decisions, and hurtful habits. 


What actions, attitudes, and behaviors are we tolerating and allowing to influence us? 


What are we feeding our hearts, minds, and spirit? 


Check your own experience folks… 


To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile.” Big Book pg. 66 


Lord open the eyes of our hearts to show us the things we need and the illusions we don’t, AMEN.


“But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.” Luke 8:15 


Have a blessed day Y’all! 


Did  you know that Mentorship can help you grow and achieve your goals and dreams? 

Inspired 365 Mentorship!!


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




Email today and let’s chat to see if we can make up a plan for you to get you to where you want to be! 


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Bad Moments

   January 5, 2025  Leave a Comment on Bad Moments 0 Likes 7 Views
While we CANNOT control what others say and do…


WE CAN control how we choose to let it affect us. 


Have you ever watched a toddler throw a temper tantrum? It’s a crisis for the moment until the parent catches their attention and changes their focus to something else. 


We don’t have to let a bad moment become a bad day! 


Just because some person, place, thing, or situation is neither kind, nor going the way we expect, we don’t have to let it take us hostage for the rest of our day and control our attitudes and actions towards ourselves and others. 


“We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.” Big Book pg. 88 


Lord please bind this thought into our hearts so that in times of stress, pain, or emotional imbalance we don’t let the words and actions or others take us hostage with fear or anger, AMEN. 


“Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger.” James 1:19 


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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Renewal Notices

   January 3, 2025  Leave a Comment on Renewal Notices 0 Likes 7 Views

Renewal notices… 


In the midst of all the posts, communications, and statements concerning New Year’s resolutions, there is another movement taking place. 


Folks are renewing stuff too! 


In our home we have car tags up for renewal along with a few memberships. 


Heck at 63 I can now RENEW my AARP membership and get discounts! 


Aside from all this fiscal and physical activity, we can also take this time to renew …


get it…RE – NEW…our spiritual life and relationship. 


New Small Groups, Bible studies, and devotions are a great way to start just to name a few. 


What are you doing to RE-NEW your spiritual life?… 


Check your experience…


“Renewing my resolve, I tried again” Big Book pg 5 


Lord, let us renew our relationship with you as this New Year begins. Help us to open our hearts and minds to seek and do Your will, AMEN. 


“Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.” Ephesians 4:23 


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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Foundation

   January 2, 2025  Leave a Comment on Foundation 0 Likes 8 Views
Remember the story about the 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf? 


If you don’t then Google it, but if you do then you will know the moral of the story. 


We are only as safe and firm as our foundation and the materials we choose to use to build with. 


I have seen this throughout my life. 


From the choices I have made to the habits, rewards, and even consequences that have come from them, 


I have learned that I have to make sure I am building onto my foundation with solid spiritual principle materials to protect me from the challenges that can and will come my way. 


What is your foundation built upon?  


What spiritual materials are you using? …


Check your experience…. 


“It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built.” Big Book pg 47. 


Lord let us build our foundation of faith with the materials of Your Word, AMEN. 


“I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it. It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built. But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.” Luke 6: 47-49 


 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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Didja?!?

   January 1, 2025  Leave a Comment on Didja?!? 0 Likes 6 Views
Didja make a New Years Resolution or a DECISION?.. 


There is a huge difference between a resolution and a decision. 


Resolutions allow us to claim a change and support a thought while requiring little or no action. 


DECISIONS are based on actions that come from thoughts that motivate us to apply changes to our thinking, behaviors, and actions. 


Resolutions sound good but DECISIONS bring about the needed action required for change. 



We have a fresh slate of 365 days folks, what’s it gonna be for you?…


Check your experience… 


“To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self-sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.” Big Book pg 93 


Lord, let us apply the actions to bring about the needed changes in our lives, AMEN. 


 “See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness.” Isaiah 43:19 
Y’all! 


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


Inspired 365 Life MENTORING!!
https://www.faiththroughworksfellowship.org/inspired-365-life-coaching 


Want a one-on-one Mentor to guide you forward to success?  

Email today and let’s chat to see if we can make up a plan for you that will work for you!


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Turn the Page

   December 31, 2024  Leave a Comment on Turn the Page 0 Likes 6 Views
Turn the page…. 

Many resolutions will be posted tomorrow and while it’s encouraging to see so many intent on change, we need to remember that change begins inside of us. 


Without our change of heart, mind, and soul, nothing really changes. 

The great news is that we are each capable of change and that there is a plan for success waiting for us if we would only allow ourselves to commit to Christ… 


Check your experience.. 


“We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn’t apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.” Big Book pg 52 


Lord let us look inside our hearts to see the changes we need and to turn our will and our lives over to You in order to see the plan You have for us, AMEN.  


“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 


Have a Safe New Year’s Eve y’all! 


Did  you know that Mentorship can help you grow and achieve your goals and dreams? 

Inspired 365 Mentorship with Mark Farley!!


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




Email today and let’s chat to see if we can make up a plan for you to get you to where you want to be! 


[email protected]

Benefits From Helping Others

   December 29, 2024  Leave a Comment on Benefits From Helping Others 0 Likes 8 Views
Charity begins at home…
This is one of the best thought tools I have come to rely on over the years. 
The version I learned was phrased like this; 
“You can’t keep it unless you give it away.”
It’s an action thought that has never failed me since I began my walk with Christ and in sobriety. 
Unless I am willing to help another, I am not in a position to spiritually receive the gifts the Lord blesses me with. 
Now this doesn’t mean we should give away everything we have, or start a crusade to end world homelessness,..
but it does mean that each day we should open the eyes of our hearts to see how we can best be of service to someone around us…
Check your experience. …
“Helping others is the foundation stone” Big Book pg. 97. 
 Lord, please open the eyes of our heart daily to see how we can best serve another, AMEN.  
“that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 
 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!


https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pastor+mark+farley&ref=nb_sb_noss 

Bad Moment not Day

   December 19, 2024 0 Likes 37 Views
If you are going through hell…keep on going… 


Back in Sacramento, years ago, ol’ Dick E. used to say in the AA meetings, 
“Don’t turn a bad moment into a bad day.” 


I have held onto that thought over the years and found that when I am in times of stress or struggle, this thought gets me through it. 


While some situations last longer than a moment, I have learned that I am not facing it alone and that when I turn my troubles and fears over to the Lord, not only does my day
 go better, but also, the situation usually resolves itself and leaves me in a better place as a result. 


Are you allowing bad moments to become bad days?..


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 pgs. 70-71 


Lord, what times of uncertainty, stress, or struggle come, remind my heart that You are with me and I can turn it over to Your care and not let it ruin my whole day, AMEN. 


“I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine.” 1 Peter 1:6-7 


 Have a blessed day Y’all! 


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