This year's quotes alternate between the rooms of recovery and the words of various people quoted in Twigs of a Family Tree [What?] and The Three Onenesses [What?]. Plus the usual baker's dozen for Baha'i events, focusing on Baha'u'llah's Words of Wisdom and with a nod to the 12 Steps. Feel free to copy/paste any images anywhere. Your social media, emails, a card, poster, T-shirt, whatever. But just for your personal use, not $-making. Please don't crop credit lines. Do use hashtags. Feel free to email me to request a high-reolution copy of any image(s) on this page. And enjoy!
2021-12-31 Green Means
#Life #Experience
![Green means alive. Green also means not yet experienced...To say "I'm growing" is simply to say "God isn't finished creating me yet." #Life #Experience #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 53 - Green Means.jpg) |
2021-12-24 Down & Up
#PutDown #LiftUp
![Just as He* is there to show how far down we are, or at least where we're headed, He is also there to lift us right back up again. (*Baha'u'llah and, indeed, each of God's Messengers) #PutDown #LiftUp #MeadSimon](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 52 - Down & Up.jpg) |
2021-12-17 Like A Muscle #Therapy #Progress
![Recovery for an alcoholic is like therapy for a muscle injury: you have to lengthen it, then you have to strengthen it. #Therapy #Progress #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 51 - Like A Muscle.jpg) |
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2021-12-10 Unknowable
#God #Understanding
![God is for us an unknowable Essence. We can no more understand our Creator than a paintain can understand the artist who painted it. #God #Understanding #TheThreeOnenesses](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 50 - Unknowable.jpg) |
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2021-12-03 All That Is
#God #Life
![God is my life, because my life is all that I am and God is all that is. #God #Life #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 49 - All That Is.jpg) |
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For Ascension (passing) of 'Abdu'l-Baha &
the 12 Steps
2021-11-27 To Love
#Bahai #Wealth
![The essence of wealth is love for Me; whoso loveth Me is the possessor of all things, and he that loveth Me not is indeed of the poor and needy. #Bahai #Wealth #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 13 - To Love.jpg) |
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2021-11-26 God Adapts
#FreeWill #GodsPlan
![When we use free will to diverge from it and create chaos or evil, when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, when we're affected by a natural catastrophe, whenever necessary, God adapts His plan. #FreeWill #GodsPlan #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 48 - God Adapts.jpg) |
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For Day of the Covenant & Step 12
2021-11-25 To Act
#Baha'i #Deeds
![The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life. #Bahai #Deeds #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 12 - To Act.jpg) |
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2021-11-19 It Isn't
#Program #Faith
![...the program isn't a race. Faith isn't a competition. Recovery isn't a contest. It's not about who can recover faster, sooner, better. (For your free copy of a 50th-Anniversary 12-Step lead on what a mustard seed has faith in, email Lucki1844@gmail.com) #Program #Faith #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 47 - It Isn't.jpg) |
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2021-11-12 Perfect Love
#God #Love
![...God is love. Whether constant or evolving, His love is perfect. Just as His creation is perfect, even though it's evolving. And That's the kiind of love we should aspire to. Even knowing we can never get that good at it. #God #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 46 - Perfect Love.jpg) |
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For Birth of Baha'u'llah & Step 11
2021-11-07 To Turn
#Bahai #Love
![The essence of love is for man to turn his heart to the Beloved One, and sever himself from all else but Him, and desire naught save that which is the desire of his Lord. #Bahai #Love #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 11 - To Turn.jpg) |
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For Birth of the Bab & Step 10
2021-11-06 To Know
#Bahai #Knowledge
![True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. #Bahai #Knowledge #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 10 - To Know.jpg) |
2021-11-05 Zero Times
#Information #Action
![Zero times anything equals zero. Infinite action x Zero information = Zero growth. Infinite information x Zero action = Zero transformation. #Information #Action #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 45 - Zero Times.jpg) |
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2021-10-29 Flexible
#GodsPlan #Providence
![It's funny about God's plans. How She keeps them alive and flexible. How She too finds some providence in the worst of calamities. The calamities are not Her doing. The providence that comes from them is. #GodsPlan #Providence #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 44 - Flexible.jpg) |
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2021-10-22 Free Will
#FreeWill #Humanity
![If there were no free will, there would be no humanity, no one capable of forming a consensual relationship with our Creator. We'd be robots. (quoted by Alan Prosser as "the best post all week") #FreeWill #Humanity #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 43 - Free Will.jpg) |
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2021-10-15 Or Tenacity
#Vice #Virtue
![Unrelenting stubbornness is a vice. Properly moderated, it becomes the virtue of perseverance. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 42 - Or Tenacity.jpg) |
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2021-10-08 Seek & Find
#Seeking #Finding
![If we're seeking a virtue, when we start using it, we start finding it. #Seeking #Finding #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 41 - Seek & Find.jpg) |
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2021-10-01 Will Or Can
#Omniscience #God
![We say God is omniscient. But how is that really defined? To know all that WILL happen? Or to know all that CAN happen? #Omniscience #God #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 40 - Will or Can.jpg) |
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2021-09-24 The Vortex
#Alcohol #PeoplesLives
![I roared through people's lives like a tornado. When you throw alcohol into the vortex, it becaomes the vortex. #Alcohol #PeoplesLives #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 39 - The Vortex.jpg) |
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2021-09-17 Unexpected
#Faith #Miracle
![...something outside the purview of science...if it really makes an unexpected change for the better in a person who has or finds faith, how does that not qualify as a miracle of its own? #Faith #Miracle #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 38 - Unexpected.jpg) |
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2021-09-10 Nine Eleven
#NineEleven #Remember
![Today is...the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The memorial park at Ground Zero has been opened. The bedrock museum has been roofed. The two tridents have been upraised. The survivor tree has come home. The footprint waterfalls are running. The mourners have gathered, the silences have been observed, the Presidents have spoken, the bells have been rung, the songs sung, the names read, the tears shed, the flags arrayed, the flowers laid, the rubbings made, and "Taps" played. Abiding Blog: Recount 2011-09-11 #NineEleven #Remember #AbidingBlog](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 37 - Nine Eleven.jpg) |
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2021-09-03 Practical
#Supernatural #Natural
![God doesn't always use mystical means, sometimes He provides practical answers. #Supernatural #Natural #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 36 - Practical.jpg) |
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2021-08-27 Grow Most
#Growth #Struggle
![We grow most by what we must fight against hardest. #Growth #Struggle #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 35 - Grow Most.jpg) |
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2021-08-20 Not Static
#GodsPlan #Evolving
![Whatever God's plan is, it is not static. It's not like He set the wheels in motion back when, and how He just watches it roll out. #GodsPlan #Evolving #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 34 - Not Static.jpg) |
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2021-08-13 Re-Move
#Subtract #Add
!["Remove" doesn't necessarily mean "take away" ... to remove a shortcoming, maybe I have to add something ... or patiently let something grow. #Subtract #Add #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 33 - Re-Move.jpg) |
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2021-08-06 See & Plan
#Omniscience #God
![If God's omniscience allows Him to see all the possible consequences, and thus to plan for every contingency, then no matter what we choose or what happens around and to and in us, He can change His plan as needed. And forge ahead. #Omniscience #God #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 32 - See & Plan.jpg) |
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2021-07-30 Without Dark
#Darkness #Light
![...God's greatest gift to us is Free Will. Without it there is no progress, no salvation, no virtue, no happiness. Without darkness, light is meaningless. #Darkness #Light #AlanProsser](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 31 - Without Dark.jpg) |
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2021-07-23 Or Supportive
#Vice #Virtue
![Rage over insult to oneself can destroy. Anger at injustice to others can empower. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 30 - Or Supportive.jpg) |
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2021-07-16 Me & God
#Difference #God
![The difference between God and me is: God doesn't think She's me. #Difference #God #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 29 - Me & God.jpg) |
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2021-07-09 User Results
#Vice #Virtue
![...when you think about it, virtues and vices actually are the same thing. It's how you use them and what the results are that makes the difference. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 28 - User Results.jpg) |
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For Martyrdom of the Bab & Step 9
2021-07-09 To Recount
#Bahai #Thanksgiving
![The essence of charity is for the servant to recount the blessings of his Lord, and to render thanks unto Him at all times and under all conditions. #Bahai #Thansgiving #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 09 - To Recount.jpg) |
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2021-07-02 Changing
#NothingChanges #ChangeMe
![Changing programs or changing meetings or changing sponsors doesn't help if I am not changing. #NothingChanges #ChangeMe #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 27 - Changing.jpg) |
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2021-06-25 Revelation
#Religion #Evolving
![All the world religions...are part of God's ongoing and progressive Revelation to an evolving humanity, like chapters in a book, grades in a school, or lamps along a path. #Religion #Evolving #TheThreeOnenesses](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 26 - Revelation.jpg) |
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2021-06-18 I & We
#Sickness #Wellness
![The I is the illness. The WE is the wellness. #Illness #Wellness #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 25 - I & We.jpg) |
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2021-06-11 Beefs It Up
#GodsPlan #Update
![...when someone goes against God's plan, He updates the plan. Beefs it up. #GodsPlan #Update #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 24 - Beefs It Up.jpg) |
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2021-06-04 Worth All
#FreeWill #Gift
![God gave us free will, a gift so great, so unfathomably great, that it's worth all the consequences no matter how bitter some of htem are. #FreeWill #Gift #AlanProsser](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 23 - Worth All.jpg) |
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2021-05-28 Or Sharing
#Vice #Virtue
![Sharing one's knowledge and perceptions with others is virtuous. Insisting that one's own ideas and plans are always right, and best for others, is rank arrogance. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 22 - Or Sharing.jpg) |
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For Ascension (passing) of Baha'u'llah & Step 8
2021-05-28 To Hold
#Bahai #Reliance
![True reliance is for the servant to pursue his profession and calling in this world, to hold fast unto the Lord, to seek naught but His grace, inasmuch as in His Hands is the destiny of all His servants. #Bahai #Reliance #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 08 - To Hold.jpg) |
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For Declaration of the Bab & Step 7
2021-05-23 To Abide
#Bahai #Courage
![The source of courage and power is the promotion of the Word of God, and steadfastness in His Love. #Bahai #Courage #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 07 - To Abide.jpg) |
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2021-05-21 What Decides
#Condition #Decision
![My future isn't decided by my conditions; it's decided by my DECISIONS. #Condition #Decision #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 21 - What Decides.jpg) |
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2021-05-14 God Shows Up
#OldWorld #NewWorld
![The tired and tainted old age, old era, old world is dying. And a better and brighter new one is being born...In other words, God always shows up. #OldWorld #NewWorld #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 20 - God Shows Up.jpg) |
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#Vice #Virtue
![Humility is the vaccine against humiliation. #Vice #Virtue #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 19 - Vaccine.jpg) |
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For Twelfth of Ridvan & Step 6
2021-05-01 To Observe
#Bahai #Safety
![The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world. #Bahai #Safety #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 06 - To Observe.jpg) |
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2021-04-30 Own The Issue
#Oppressor #Beneficiary
![Yes, the oppressed and powerless must raise their voices and stand up for their rights. But then it's the oppressors and empowered -- and especially all the silent beneficiaries in the wider community -- who must own the issue. Own the situation the oppressors triggered. #Oppressor #Beneficiary #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 18 - Own The Issue.jpg) |
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For Ninth of Ridvan & Step 5
2021-04-28 To Witness
#Bahai #Detachment
![The essence of detachment is for man to turn his face towards the courts of the Lord, to enter His Presence, behold His Countenance, and stand as witness before Him. #Bahai #Detachment #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 05 - To Witness.jpg) |
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2021-04-23 The Winner
#Winners #TheGreatest
![Hang with the winners. And remember that the greatest winner is God. #Winners #TheGreatest #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 17 - The Winner.jpg) |
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For First of Ridvan & Step 4
2021-04-20 To Look
#Bahai #Justice
![The essence of all that We have revealed for thee is Justice, is for man to free himself from idle fancy and imitation, discern with the eye of oneness His glorious handiwork, and look into all things with a searching eye. #Bahai #Justice #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 04 - To Look.jpg) |
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2021-04-16 Or Love
#Vice #Virtue
![Love is a virtue. Improperly expressed, it becomes lust or obsession. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 16 - Or Love.jpg) |
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2021-04-09 Come Up Short
#Shortcomings #Human
![SHORTCOMINGS: What I am when I come up short is not bad or a failure or the piece of crud the universe revolves around, but a human being being human. #Shortcomings #Human #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 15 - Come Up Short.jpg) |
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2021-04-02 Or Dignity
#Vice #Virtue
![Pride in the sense of self-esteem, of knowing what one is good at, is a virtue. Overweening pride becaomes the vice of vanity. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 14 - Or Dignity.jpg) |
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2021-03-26 Someone
#Sponsorship #Mirrors
![In seeking a sopnsor, don't look for someone like you; look of someone you want to be like. #Sponsorship #Mirrors #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 13 - Someone.jpg) |
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For Naw-Ruz (New Year) & Step 3
2021-03-20 To Accept
#Bahai #Acceptance
![The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed and contentment with that which God hath ordained. #Bahai #Acceptance #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 03 - To Accept.jpg) |
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2021-03-19 His Eternity
#Creation #Love
![Maybe God created us because of His perfect love. Maybe God created the universe in order to devote His eternity to learning how to love us. #Creation #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 12 - His Eternity.jpg) |
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2021-03-12 Our Choices
#Knowing #Choosing
![Just because the All Knowing, the Omniscient, knows what choices we make does not mean they are not our choices. #Knowing #Choosing #AlanProsser](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 11 - Our Choices.jpg) |
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2021-03-05 For Less
#Faith #Hope #Love
![If we don't strive to care more, we'll care less 'til we become careless of others and outselves. If we can't learn to love more, we'll love less 'til we're loveless. If we neglect to deepen in our faith, we'll have less faith 'til we become faithless. If we don't bother to hope for more, especially for others, we'll hope for less 'til we're hopeless. #Faith #Hope #Love #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 10 - For Less.jpg) |
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For 19-Day (daylight) Fast & Step 2
2021-03-01 To Trust
#Bahai #Contentment
![The source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure. #Baha'i #Contentment #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 02 - To Trust.jpg) |
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2021-02-26 Seed's Faith
#Faith #MustardSeed
![Top 10 Things a Mustard Seed Has Faith In: 1. Freedom 2. Letting Go 3. Being Grounded 4. Sense of Direction 5. Growth 6. Results 7. Gifts To Come 8. Having a Purpose 9. Cycle of Life 10. Love For your free copy of a 50th-Anniversary 12-Step lead on what a mustard seed has faith in, email Info@EarthstarWorks.com #Faith #MustardSeed #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 09 - Seed's Faith.jpg) |
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For Ayyam-i-Ha & Step 1
2021-02-25 To Testify
#Bahai #Understanding
![The essence of understanding is to testify to one's poverty and submit to the Will of hte Lord, the Sovereign, the Gracious, the All-Powerful. #Bahai #Understanding #bahaullah #WordsOfWisdom](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21HD 01 - To Testify.jpg) |
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2021-02-19 Not Hung Up
#God #HungUp
![God doesn't get hung up on coulda-woulda-shoulda-mighta-beens. #God #HungUp #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 08 - Not Hung Up.jpg) |
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2021-02-12 We Come
#Getting #Bringing
![What we come for, we come with. #Getting #Bringing #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 07 - We Come.jpg) |
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2021-02-05 Or Humility
#Vice #Virtue
![Self-abasement is a vice. Balanced with one's sense of self-worth, it becomes the virtue of humility. #Vice #Virtue #TwigsOfAFamilyTree](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 06 - Or Humility.jpg) |
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2021-01-29 A Miracle Is
#GodDoes #DontKnow
![A miracle is when God does something for us that we don't understand how God did it. #GodDoes #DontKnow #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 05 - A Miracle Is.jpg) |
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2021-01-22 Our Potential
#GodsLaw #FullPotential
![...God does not send us laws "for the fun of it". The purpose of these laws, both spiritual and physical, both immutable and shanging, is to help individuals and the whole human race attain our FULLEST potential. #GodsLaw #FullPotential #TheThreeOnenesses](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 04 - Our Potential.jpg) |
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2021-01-15 With Us
#Journey #Together
![It's so cool that on this journey, people walk with us, people stay with us. #Journey #Together #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 03 - With Us.jpg) |
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2021-01-08 Our Nature
#HumanNature #FreeWill
![God created us with the NATURE to have free will. #HumanNature #FreeWill #AlanProsser](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 02 - Our Nature.jpg) |
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2021-01-01 God Digs
#God #Diversity
![God really digs diversity. #God #Diversity #Recovery](ESW Images/Blog AM - 21 01 - God Digs.jpg) |
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