Thursday Mornng ~ Our CASA Meetings are held every Sunday at 7 PM and open to the public free-of-charge. We do not even pass the basket.
Yes, it is true that it is a great blessing to have strong support from others who support us in our efforts at on-going sobriety, progressive recovery and spiritual healing.
Our personal recovery and personal liberation can sometimes be a very lonely state of existence, especially if we isolate and insulate ourselves and are not open to new ideas and ideals. This is part of why we sometimes meet in group settings with different venues.
I know my Lovely Peach has been a blessing for me and she already has some good sobriety time from prescription drugs for so-called bi-polar disorder, in fact, since September 14th, 2008. I see the need for prescription drugs for some to help them to cross-over into total sobriety from all addictive substances. We do not want to replace chemical addiction with street drugs with lifelong addiction to prescription drugs.
We all need to see the urgent need for daily sane and sober recovery but should be wise and have a vision for working on our spiritual healing. Sobriety is the starting point, but sobriety alone is not enough. We need to recover, repair and rebuild ourselves as triune humane beings living life on life's terms and daily coping with life-problems. We are living entities in the entire mind-body-soul trinity as creatures of the Creator.
We need to comprehend and accept key facts:
1. We are creatures of the Creator. Our Higher Power is the Creator, no one else. The Holy Bible was written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit and the original principles of the A.A. 12-Steps Program came from the Holy Bible!!!
2. Drug addiction and other disorders are manifestations of our divorce from the Creator. Drug addicts are alienated from the Creator God and their true inner selves.
3. Drug addiction is a mental ilness and spiritual disease. This dis-ease causes suffering.
4. We must go beyond the cloak of anonymity, get involved in what is ultimately our own spiritual healing and be sensitive to global humane rights issues, including the persecution of drugs addicts who require wholistic drug treatment programs, not repressive jails, prisons and institutions.
5. At one level of another, all addictions and other disorders require us raising our own personal self-esteem in terms of self-love, self-respect and self-confidence.
These are a few facts and relative conclusions I have obtained from my involvement with homeless refugees at the local Salvation Army Emergency Shelter for well over twelve years both as a client and as a staff member.
No one has cornered the market on truth. Each of us must come to know our own truth in a way that works for us. We merely offer general guidelines. The hard work is for us to inspect ourselves, come to really know ourselves and see our role in the world in relation to a true cosmic consciousness. We must make amends to those we have wronged, go through a true repentence in our spiritual awakening and remember not to take our own selves too seriously. Humor and laughter are natural remedies!
From: "robertslopez14@yahoo.com" <robertslopez14@yahoo.com>
To: Sane-and-Sober@yahoogroups.com
Cc: John Randolph Engbeck <jengbeck@yahoo.com>; Peta Lopez <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:49:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Sane-and-Sober] Re: Read: It's all good! ~ from Peta-de-Aztlan
Yes, it is true that it is a great blessing to have strong support from others who support us in our efforts at on-going sobriety, progressive recovery and spiritual healing.
Our personal recovery and personal liberation can sometimes be a very lonely state of existence, especially if we isolate and insulate ourselves and are not open to new ideas and ideals. This is part of why we sometimes meet in group settings with different venues.
I know my Lovely Peach has been a blessing for me and she already has some good sobriety time from prescription drugs for so-called bi-polar disorder, in fact, since September 14th, 2008. I see the need for prescription drugs for some to help them to cross-over into total sobriety from all addictive substances. We do not want to replace chemical addiction with street drugs with lifelong addiction to prescription drugs.
We all need to see the urgent need for daily sane and sober recovery but should be wise and have a vision for working on our spiritual healing. Sobriety is the starting point, but sobriety alone is not enough. We need to recover, repair and rebuild ourselves as triune humane beings living life on life's terms and daily coping with life-problems. We are living entities in the entire mind-body-soul trinity as creatures of the Creator.
We need to comprehend and accept key facts:
1. We are creatures of the Creator. Our Higher Power is the Creator, no one else. The Holy Bible was written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit and the original principles of the A.A. 12-Steps Program came from the Holy Bible!!!
2. Drug addiction and other disorders are manifestations of our divorce from the Creator. Drug addicts are alienated from the Creator God and their true inner selves.
3. Drug addiction is a mental ilness and spiritual disease. This dis-ease causes suffering.
4. We must go beyond the cloak of anonymity, get involved in what is ultimately our own spiritual healing and be sensitive to global humane rights issues, including the persecution of drugs addicts who require wholistic drug treatment programs, not repressive jails, prisons and institutions.
5. At one level of another, all addictions and other disorders require us raising our own personal self-esteem in terms of self-love, self-respect and self-confidence.
These are a few facts and relative conclusions I have obtained from my involvement with homeless refugees at the local Salvation Army Emergency Shelter for well over twelve years both as a client and as a staff member.
No one has cornered the market on truth. Each of us must come to know our own truth in a way that works for us. We merely offer general guidelines. The hard work is for us to inspect ourselves, come to really know ourselves and see our role in the world in relation to a true cosmic consciousness. We must make amends to those we have wronged, go through a true repentence in our spiritual awakening and remember not to take our own selves too seriously. Humor and laughter are natural remedies!
Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez aka: Peta
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
http://casa-12steps.blogspot.com/
http://sane-sober.blogspot.com/
http://www.thefourwinds.com/tp-hlb.php
Key Link: http://www.NetworkAztlan.com
From: "robertslopez14@yahoo.com" <robertslopez14@yahoo.com>
To: Sane-and-Sober@yahoogroups.com
Cc: John Randolph Engbeck <jengbeck@yahoo.com>; Peta Lopez <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:49:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Sane-and-Sober] Re: Read: It's all good! ~ from Peta-de-Aztlan
It's good to be reconnected to both of you. Yes the SLE's are actually not part of my recovery program. The NA material as well as my association with the church's Overcomers Program is what has been keeping me sane. The help of this beautiful Flipina in the program and with me in church is a blessing also. Maybe a meeting at CASA for starters.... . I hear that guy Peta has a few good words to share.... Robert S. Lopez - "Tata" --- On Wed, 1/7/09, John Engbeck <jengbeck@yahoo. com> wrote:
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