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The fellowpilgrimprogram was started at a drug and alcohol treatment center for veterans in Milwaukee Wisconsin. As part of our therapy, we were asked to share anything that might contribute to our recovery. I chose to share the 8 Doctors, which I had learned at a Christian commune I stayed at in the mid seventies. Sobriety for me did not happen over night. I learned how to trust the 12 Step process, and... day by day I applied the 12 Step principles in my life. I got a sponsor (another recovering Vietnam Veteran brother) who had taken the 12 step journey himself. I went to buku 12 step meetings. With my Higher Power Jesus, I was able to clear away the wreckage of my past... by identifying my many character defects... and making amends to those people I had hurt. I went to Stratton College to get an Associate degree in Science and worked for a while in a hospital as a medical assistant. I finally found my place when I worked in Substance Abuse Treatment Centers. Here I found where I could use my strength, hope, and experience to help others. fellowpilgrimprogram has now continued to progress and The 8 Doctors... and RocknRollnRecovery are still being presented. It is a wonderful experience to go from being "once a dirty worm" into being a "prettylittlebutterfly"!! You should try it sometime :) "crawl into your cocoon" and "fly out a prettylittlebutterfly" "We must be born again" thats what Jesus says. :))
JesusAndme
JA JesusAndme began on the Navajo Reservation.
In 2016 I was asked to bring substance abuse recovery to the Nation. As I went to the various recovery meetings I quickly realized how much harder it is for our Native American brothers and sisters to stay sober. They are literally surrounded by friends and relatives who are struggling with the same illness and behaviors!! There is always a core of concerned recovering alcoholic/addicts and I sought out help and advice from these fine people. A concept and relationship to a Higher Power is absolutely necessary to any long term sobriety. The alcoholic/addict must take step one and admit he or she is licked... and cannot use drugs in any form, or it releases the addiction all over. That leaves us with the only other alternative...ask a Higher Power for help...or go to the bitter ends...jails, institutions, or death. In my humble opinion ( and thats all this is ), Most Native American concept of a Higher Power is one of a nature Higher Power...like the sky and wind and rain and mother earth...and thats fine...(in my humble opinion :)). I wanted to share what...Who...and how it was working for me. So...with the help of some dedicated Christian friends we started JA JesusAndme. A wise man once said " despise not the day of small beginning ". JA started with probably 12 members, and before covid hit, we were averaging at least 100 every weekday nite!! We eventually saw the need to have a JA program for kids...so we started JA Kids, which provided a 12 step program to up to 30 Navajo children teaching them how to work their own 12 steps!
I have seen many...young and old...grandmoms and grand dads...moms and dads...and children embrace the 12 steps with Jesus as their Highest Power...and change...into prettylittlebutterflys! Try it sometime....it will work for you too. :))
TIME IS COME
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU...BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THINGS ARE MOVING PRETTY FAST THESE DAYS!! AND I DON'T MEAN JUST THE COVID VIRUS! THIS LAST SUMMER BROUGHT ALOT OF FRUSTRATION TO THE FOREFRONT, AND MANY ANGRY PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST...AND NOT NON VIOLENT PROTESTS LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING, GANDHI AND JESUS REFLECTED. BURNING, LOOTING, AND SOME KILLING IN THE NAME OF CHANGE. RIGHT AFTER THAT CAME THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WHICH WAS THE MOST CONTENTIOUS EVER WITH THE COUNTRY SPLIT IN THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS JUST ABOUT EQUALLY IN TWO. AND AGAIN...ANGER AND DEATH. NO TELLING WHATS NEXT... BUT IF THE BIBLE CAN BE TRUSTED (AND I BELIEVE IT CAN), 2 TIMOTHY 3... DESCRIBES IT REALLY WELL... "READ IT FOR YOURSELF". BUT KNOW THIS...THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF THEMSELVES, LOVERS OF MONEY, BOASTERS, PROUD, BLASPHEMERS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, UNTHANKFUL, UNHOLY, UNFORGIVING, UNLOVING, SLANDERERS, WITHOUT SELF CONTROL, BRUTAL, DESPISERS OF GOOD, TRAITORS, HEADSTRONG, HAUGHTY, LOVERS OF PLEASURE RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD...HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING IT'S POWER.
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