Oh my word . . .
Aug 25, 08- (by Chris Mecham)
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- Sober Salon
I have the day off. When I have the day off I like to get up slowly, stretching, praying, before I ever get vertical.
When I allow my self to get up slowly the likliehood of having intuitive, meaningful, and useful inspiration to guide me through the day. Today I had that experience, drives me crazy when this happens, of realizing a deeper meaning of one of those things we say all the time:
Don’t make too hard a work out of a simple matter.
Which is exactly what I’ve been doing. Recovering addicts and alcoholics everywhere, from every walk of life, no matter how far down the scale they have gone, get up in the morning, go to their jobs, do their dishes and laundry, make their beds, go to meetings, sponsor people, return to school, save money for things they want. They even find time and energy in there to have relationships with people and a life outside the rooms.
The idea that I am making things too hard on myself seems so obvious, and is one of the greatest tenants of the 12 step program. As the picture above, from Duns Scotus’ Ordinatio - ‘Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - plurality is not to be posited without necessity’.
It is the same thing Leonardo Da Vinci stated as, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” We hear it stated all the time as, “The simplest explanation is usually the best.” In the rooms we hear people say “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck - it’s a duck.” And we are all familiar with the simple acronym: “K.I.S.S.” (Keep It Simple, Stupid).
O.K. Got it. Moving on!
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