Tag Archives: recovery

Step Three: Giving up the whoopee

Posted on February 7, 2025 by jwfisch

Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. It’s all about control. So far I have been in control of my own life and I have already … Continue reading →

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Step One: Powerless and Unmanageable

Posted on February 5, 2025 by jwfisch

Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. It has been estimated that over two million people worldwide are currently partaking in the assistance provided by an Alcoholics Anonymous group, and AA has been in … Continue reading →

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A.A. Meeting Tonight

Posted on February 4, 2025 by jwfisch

Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship of men and women coming together with the stated purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety. It was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith of … Continue reading →

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Grace Turned Outward — a dynamic story

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jwfisch

Susan Burton is a hero. What she has done with her life is extraordinary, although she would deny that. She would simply say, in her own words, that her life is just Grace Turned Outward.

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Mutual aid fellowship

Posted on January 4, 2018 by jwfisch

Many people’s experience with church is spending an hour on Sunday morning or Saturday night worshiping God in music and listening to someone teach from the word of God. Contact with others is limited and entirely up to you to … Continue reading →

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Moving mountains

Posted on June 1, 2017 by jwfisch

Jesus said we could move mountains. Now I know at least Marti can. While Chandler and I were camping in the mountains last weekend, Marti moved two of them. Not the ones where we were, but the ones at home … Continue reading →

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No longer strange

Posted on August 5, 2016 by jwfisch

As much as I would like to convey the impression that everything is just dandy with our son, Chandler, and that he returned home an entirely different person with none of the former addictions or behaviors anywhere in sight, I … Continue reading →

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As good as it gets

Posted on January 22, 2016 by jwfisch

The 95-year-old mother of one of our friends and key supporters died early this year. She was the matriarch of a very large family, and hearing him talk about her led me to ask him to tell me one thing … Continue reading →

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Gaining spiritual victory

Posted on May 11, 2015 by jwfisch

Do you have anything in your life that you want victory over? Be it sin, temptation, bitterness, anger, selfishness, addiction, inability to forgive? Well then, this story is for you.

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Drag me out

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jwfisch

Boy, do I understand this. I didn’t realize it at first until I kept reading one of our member’s comments, because I was so intrigued by its honesty and its beauty, and discovered she was a poet. I took out … Continue reading →

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