Along Spiritual Lines

The way I live my life, is by what's called,"Living a 12 Step Spiritual Program". For me, this means growing along spiritual lines, spiritual progress,( not perfection). So right up front let me say I am not a guru or Jesus freak(although I am cool with Jesus), or one of these people that tries to shove religion down your throat. I am a person that got into a situation where the only way out was by following the few other people that had made it out. Nothing else seemed to work except working a 12 step spiritual program, like NA, AA,ACOA, Alanon. I initialy got my teachings from the "Crossroads" program,where I was a member for 6 years and am now an alumni and friend of the program. While in Crossroads I was introduced to the other programs. The bases of my teaching is love, love for myself, love for God, and love for others. I believe every act of kindness gets me closer to paradise. I have seen the face of God in the face of a suffering man that starts to get better and eventually smiles. I don't pretend to understand everything thats going on, on this spiritual journey but I do believe that it's the path I need to be on. I am currently working Step one with my sponsor. I have continually worked the 12 steps for the last 10 years and have now gotten around to step one again. It's so cool because it offers freedom. The Step reads " We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable." Some of the spiritual principles that are gained are honesty, open-mindedness, willingness, acceptance, hope, surrender and freedom, plus many more. I hope this has helped some people to get to know me a little better. Also, I will be attending a workshop next week taught by Clint Stonebraker, the author of the book, I just read, entitled "Relationships for the Intimately challenged" published by Meek publishing. I will try to keep the blog thing going and blog more often.
Peace,Love, and Respect......Ponytail Tim.