Alcoholics Anonymous, 5th & Final Post

November, 2010, Julee & I at Trevi Fountain in Rome Step 11: “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” I just want to say...

Alcoholics Anonymous & the Virtues, Part 4

The Twelve Steps and the Virtues. (Part 4) Step 8) “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” The first eight of the twelve steps remind me of the “Contemplation” prompts for each of the Fifty-two virtues in Little Book...

Virtues: Always a Choice, Never a Mandate

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Compassion

Blog post for September 9, 2021   Jon and Carolyn Freeman are great friends of Julee’s and mine whom we met while living in Baja Mexico several years back. It was one of those “meant to be” moments when we met as strangers in passing and I felt...

Honoring others

Www.littlebookofvirtues.com/honoring Joel Moody is a cousin-in-law that my wife Julee and I are very close to. Joel has taught me so much and been such an encouragement to me. Joel offers the following regarding the virtue of Honoring: “The past year of my life...

The Power of One

August 25, 2021 I tell the story in one of the Virtues on the website of the man who went walking on the ocean beach, where he spotted a young boy tossing starfish that were left high and dry by the tide, back out into the ocean. The man exclaimed, “What do you...

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