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    Recovery Essays
    Recovery Essays
    Recovery Essays
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    Recovery Essays

    By Cynical Saints

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    A companion piece to Sharing Like Shakespeare: A Grateful Recovering Sock Puppet Play AND MORE!

    These essays are ultimately designed for long term members of twelve step fellowships to help them be better sponsors and to help them be of service to others with out allowing it to become their whole identity.

    Just like the comedy Sharing Like Shakespeare: A Grateful Recovering Sock Puppet Play, some of the essays deal with topics such as evangelism, teamwork, ego, honesty, humiliation and humility.

    Here are the titles of the four essays..
    1. Spirituality Vs. Religion
    2. Selfish Service and Evangelism
    3. Newcomer Obsession
    4. The Thirteenth Step
    5. Sharing Like Shakespeare Expanded and Explained

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCynical Saints
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781310659225
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      Recovery Essays - Cynical Saints

      Recovery Essays

      By Kimmy J

      Preface

      Copyright 2016 Cynical Saints Publishing. This work is meant for entertainment purposes only. Any views or ideas expressed by the work and characters therein is not necessarily the views or ideas of Cynical Saints Publishing. Cynical Saints Publishing is an entity unto itself and has no direct affiliation with any other organization. In no way is it legal to reproduce, duplicate, or transmit any part of this document in either electronic means or in printed format. All rights reserved. Respective authors own all copyrights not held by the publisher. The trademarks that are used are without any consent, and the publication of the trademark is without permission or backing by the trademark owner. All trademarks and brands within this book are for clarifying and storytelling purposes only and are owned by the owners themselves, not affiliated with this document.

      Table of Contents

      Spirituality Vs Religion

      Selfish Service and Evangelism

      Newcomer Obsession

      Thirteenth Step

      Sharing Like Shakespeare Expanded

      Connect With the Author

      Spirituality Vs. Religion

      (By: Anonymous)

      We are thrust unwittingly into philosophy. Basic functions of a civilized person, such as hygiene, table manners, and contraception are frequently more than we can seem to handle in the beginning. Simple functionality is often our ambition when we arrive, concluding a losing battle with addiction and beginning a new way of life. God help us to remember that. But then, despite all of this, or perhaps in response to it, we find ourselves on a journey that calls upon us to question repeatedly what we fundamentally believe about life and embark upon finding a spiritual relationship with a god of our own personal understanding. However ironic, that is the reality. You cannot work the program to the best of your ability and not become a philosopher to some degree, not the way I see it. It is helpful to keep in mind our humble beginnings though. The truth itself is a subjective and fluid concept and revisions or renovations are important.

      But ours is a spiritual program, not a religious one. Further, it is not a religion itself. Stories are the most powerful devices available in linguistic communication that don’t contain a melody. That’s why we share our actual experiences and hopes rather than doling out advice and preaching. Hopefully the following two stories about two people whom I had the privilege of sponsoring will illustrate the purpose of this essay.

      Stan was actually a friend of my little sister’s. She is not an addicted person she is a civilian. Once I had stayed on the wagon (or off the wagon… I always confuse the wagon metaphor?) for a couple of years and had clearly established the direction of my life, my sister called and told me she had a friend who was talking about going to meetings and wanted to give this person my phone number. I always say yes to giving out my number. It’s my choice to answer or not. This is how Stan came into my life. I immediately became his sponsor, which was brand new to me at that time. The first time we worked the second step I discovered Stan had been raised Catholic. He told me he believed in the God from his childhood. He said that part was already handled. We progressed individually and together. He NEVER used the word God. By the time we arrived at the Eleventh Step something had clicked for Stan. Something fell into place. Something bloomed. He opened like a flower in the sun. This is also known as a spiritual awakening. He confessed to me that he was an atheist. He told me that God was always something that he was supposed to believe in so he just went with it. But really he did not believe in a personal interventionist God. And yet it didn’t matter. He had tapped into something. He had found that he

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