Steps on our Road to Recovery

Daily Steps On Our Road to Recovery for 31 January to 4 February 2000.

Published Last Week. A daily hint published each day since June 1996. This is past my third year anniversary since starting my web pages. Page Down for the next days that are added a day at a time. I have moved to http://www.recoverybydiscovery.com and this daily page is now here at daily.htm . I would appreciate any feedback, questions and suggestions that you have.

31 January 2000

What to do?

There are many times when we do not know what to do.

Sometimes, that is most of the time. Our challenge can be to

slow down enough, to just know what to do. That can be quite

a challenge. We tend to want to do too much. We tend to want

too many things. We get addicted to the any forms of excitement.

All the way from anger to avoid boredom to watching the news to

avoid boredom. It does not matter what the form of the addiction is.

Perhaps the only real problem, challenge, is to find how to not be

bored.

1 February 2000

How can we not be bored?

When we are paying attention, we are not bored. We live on a planet

that can be dangerous. We live where there are many games going on. We

live where there are many people taking many trips. We are free to keep

ourselves safe or put ourselves in harms way. Sometimes we are not free to

keep ourselves safe, and our community puts us in harms way, to protect our

community's safety. We are challenged in many ways. There is always some

thing that needs doing. There is always something that needs solving. What

is the problem?

2 February 2000

What are aliens?

Before we need to be concerned about aliens, we have more aliens within

ourselves to deal with. These are our subconscious parts. These are our parts

that are unconscious to us.

Could these unconscious parts make themselves known to us by showing

up as experiences with aliens? Of course. Does that mean that all experiences

with aliens are from our subconscious? Yes, in a way. That is, whether the

experience is real or imagined, it still has some relationship to our consciousness.

Does that mean that aliens do or do not exist? No.

How could we find if aliens exist? That would not be very easy. It seems

that we have not been able to capture any of them, other than stories of their

capture. The hard way would be for us to resolve all issues we have within us,

until there are no more unknown parts. Then, there would be no aliens without.

Of course, when we all were that clear, we would know and be in contact with

any real aliens that we wanted to in our real world, through our inner world, and

perhaps our outer world. These aliens would be coming in peace, since we

would all be at peace.

Since we are not all at peace, perhaps we need to know more about how

we cause violence.

3 February 2000

How can we find peace?

When we find the God of the Old Testament dead in us. When we find

the God of the New Testament alive in us, along with the God of the Old

Testament that repented and atoned for all our mistakes.

When our God concepts are like some of the concepts of the God of

the Old Testament, then we are ALSO angry, violent, wrathful, vengeful, ...

To find peace, that God has to die in us. To find peace, the God of mercy,

love, forgiveness, atonement, etc. has to grow up in us. That is, when we

want peace. That is, when we would not be bored with peace.

4 February 2000

How else can we find peace?

This is a hard one. We can find ultimate peace, when we believe we live

in a fair universe. We can not really be at peace, with an unfair universe and

or unfair God. Then we are always at war with our world, our universe. When

we are asked how the world is treating us, we have to reply "Not Good".

When I am asked, I usually reply "Good Enough For Today."

Robert Schuler wrote a book called "Life's Not Fair, But God is Good."

Although I do enjoy most of Robert's positive ministry, this book particular

book is not of real comfort, since it spreads the concept of an unfair universe

and ultimately an unfair God. A better title would be "Life Is Fair, And So

Is God." It could have a subtitle of "We Are Responsible When It Is Not."

Very Respectfully,

Michael Foster, MA

Your Recovery by Discovery Coach

https://www.recoverybydiscovery.com

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