tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21073768989966151522024-03-08T11:21:46.529-08:00The Great RealityThe Great Realityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04539988165693969507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107376898996615152.post-19391171307453284462011-05-16T08:26:00.001-07:002011-05-16T08:30:21.906-07:00David's Story<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After 33 years of sobriety David fell apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all the underpinnings of his mental, emotion and spiritual life were swept away in the horrible realization that he was not the man he thought he was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the actions that he rationalized to him self as part of his program were bad not good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad because of the consequences that fell upon other people as well as upon himself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It took a long time to realize that he had been the victim of his own “self” and that his “self” fed into other powers that allowed him to stray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not a victim but an ignorant participant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignorant because his own rationalization and pride had shut off the sunlight of the spirit and once more in his life the false appeared to be the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shock and disbelief were literally physically overwhelming, bringing him to his knees and completely incapacitating his ability to think or act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing he could do was pray and that was more a wail than any coherent lifting of his mind or heart to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was broken and defeated..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It would be nice to say that with his realization and defeat that God zapped him into sanity and effectiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took over a year and a half to begin to be settled again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in that year and a half David had to completely change his relationship with God and other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had humiliated himself now he had to truly find out what humility really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to go where the answers were because there was no answers any other place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David found his way when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ruin and death seemed the only future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he was able to trade this bleak prospect for one of miracles and magic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In that year and a half , David found that he was not the only person with advanced years of practicing a spiritual program who faced this sort of crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people with 10, 15, 25 and more years in recovery or a spiritual life had been brought to their knees by an unexpected or unseen crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the others did not survive because they did not know how and could not or would not seek.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How had David survived when so many others in like situations made the supreme sacrifice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the purpose of “The Great Reality”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To tell and teach you precisely how to face, deal with and grow through life shattering prospects and experiences.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">More anon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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