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Hello Tim Dill, keep coming back...
Sunday, 7 April 1996 20:53:07, Tim Dill wrote to Andrew Dettman
Subject: Prayers Please
 TD> On (Monday, 1 April 1996) Andrew Dettman was mumbling to Kurt
 TD> J. Tischer...
 AD>> I offer these extracts in the spirit of the guidance given
 AD>> in the 12 and 12 when in the chapter on Step 11 page 100,
 TD> Nicely done, however you have strayed into one of the gray
 TD> areas of the echo rules....
 TD> -!--Excerpt----
 TD> NOTE: As RECOVERY is not a part of or affiliated with _ANY_
 TD> recovery program, attempting to impose traditions, membership
 TD> requirements, etc. of any specific program is out of order.
 TD> -!------------
Thankyou for this clarification...as a member of the A.A. programme
I did not realise that this Echo was quite so non-specific.
 TD> I can construe that to mean any religious order also....
 TD> so share, -=Don't=- preach, nor quote from any specific
 TD> religious material...
OK, I'm sorry - the way my shares come out sometimes are not in my
control in the usual sense of the word, so I must hand over to the God
of my understanding without Whom there would be no recovery for me and
if any subsequent expression breaks these Echo's rules then though my
personal recovery will progress, if it is too specific - it will not appear
here, but maybe more appropriately in an Echo specifically for members
of A.A.
The difficulty I suppose for me is that my alcohol problem has turned
out to be the KEY to my finding a Spiritual Programme which I try
to let apply to all areas of my life - bit like a key to a new house. I
try to enjoy the house, otherwise I spend all my time fretting about
the key though it has already opened the door and so long as I remember where
it is, how small a thing a key is compared to a house?
 TD> I apologize if I sound short, I just flew in from the east
 TD> coast and I am not quite at ground zero yet...and have a week's
 TD> worth of mail to scan in the next half hour before I leave for work.
No need for you to apologise to me - thankyou for taking the trouble
to moderate this Echo and for thus providing such a useful Recovery
facility.
Best wishes,
Andrew.
.!. I'm not nearly as think as you confused I am.
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