PoM 361
Matt D. Administrative Director of AAA sent me a text with a CS Lewis quote on masturbation.
I have always loved Lewis’s simple clarity and humor as he tackles the most inscrutable moral problems.
After writing 57 Offices on Gandhi last week, though, I always get to the point where Gandhi comes down on Christianity like a rubber sledge hammer in the movie “Roger Rabbit”.
He slams them for one reason: John 14:6, where Jesus, ever so modestly, claims that “No one gets to my Dad…unless you deal with me first”.
Bill Wilson taught that if we were to be sober we had to be honest…and honestly, the Christians that I know, all believe that.
So, I went and researched CS Lewis and sure enough he had something to say about this touchy little subject: “When we speak of Jesus to others, we must not bow to the pluralistic ethos of our culture and allow him to be reduced to one religious or moral teacher among others.”
That kind of makes the Jews mad…and the Muslims…and the Hindus…and the Buddhists. I live in a major seaport and I gotta live with those folks.
My thinking is that if you can walk on water, turn water into wine, make the blind to see, make the lame to walk and, as though that weren’t enough, make 2000 pigs run off a cliff…you are probably Jeff Bezos.
PoM 362
Rule #62:
At dental surgery, I needed to use the men’s room, but it was being cleaned. I asked the custodian if I could use the women’s room. She said “Take your pick”.
There was one labeled “Women”. The next bathroom was labeled “Gay”. Another was labeled Bi-sexual, then Lesbian, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Questioning on down the line. Finally, the eighth bathroom was labeled A for Asexual.
In San Francisco we love everybody…long as you’re just like us.
PoM 363
Step Nine
I’ve been trying every day, for seven days, to talk with my brother.
It worked for about four days and then it started trailing off, him not answering the phone.
Today, he went into a rage when I asked him to speak up.
I’m powerless over my brother, but I must protect myself from abuse.
I have wanted for 55 years to repair our relationship.
I always blamed myself for becoming selfish about girls and beer and abandoning him…but it was a little larger picture than that.
My SLAA sponsor used to say “It takes two people to be in a relationship… And I ain’t both of them”.
I have done my part…Now, I turn him over to God.
PoM 364
Today is day 22 in chastity.
I am making significant progress in walking tall and improving my carriage. I have, gently, asked if my wife might agree to doing a 60 day celibacy, so I can work on this. She graciously agreed…
PoM 365
Welcome to WORY radio station:
“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song. I’m worried now…but, I won’t be worried long.”
When I am tired, I worry about:
My sponsees
My wife
My son
My landlord
My brother
My recently dead best friend’s son
It they’re not the problem…then, they’re not the solution.
PoM 366
“Be Beautiful”
Jerry had one green eye and one gray eye.
He had a strong torso and a flat, hard belly.
He walked like a lion guarding his Pride of females.
Head up
Shoulders back
Thighs forward
Pelvis tilted
He was pulchritudinous…
That just means he was so pretty he could sheer the paint off a wall just walking by a girl.
I know. I saw the chips flying as he walked away with my girl.
My heart was broke…but my walls looked great.