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UNINTENDED GOOD

Please God let the horrible conditions at Fulton County Jail in Georgia (and bad jails everywhere) improve as a result of press coverage of Donald Trump and his allies' arrests there this week.   When I was in prison you "visited" me.  (Matthew 25:35-36). I suspect there are a lot of Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA's) in politics, in prison, and everywhere there are hurting people. Having said that, I was inspired to edit the 12-Steps of ACA and apply them to politics below. Here are those edited steps: 1. We admitted we were powerless against the effects of political dysfunction, that it had become unmanageable. 2.  Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (or our political party) could restore us to sanity. 3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our good God, as we understand our good God (in all our political affairs). 4.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves (before...

THE PICTURE FRAME

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"God can only come in with mystical over-and-above help when we have reached our limits and can go no further.” Ruth Burrows. Reflection: There comes a moment when the picture frame falls away. And we can go further. Amen Cb