The
Good Life by Pat Nordman
" ... Who
built ruins for themselves ... " Job 3:14b NKJ |
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I sometimes wonder if we have
not lost our sanity and common sense when I read the daily papers. My husband and I long
ago gave up watching the news on TV. It's too gory and slanted.
Recently I came across this gem on Internet:
The 12 Steps to Total and Complete Insanity:
1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing. We could manage our lives perfectly and we
could manage those of anyone else that would allow it.
2. Came to believe that there was no power greater than ourselves, and the rest of the
world was insane.
3. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and their lives
over to our care.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew.
5. Admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of their wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.
7. Demanded others to either "shape up or ship out".
8. Made a list of anyone who had ever harmed us and became willing to go to any lengths to
get even with them all.
9. Got direct revenge on such people whenever possible except when to do so would cost us
our own lives, or at the very least, a jail sentence.
10. Continued to take inventory of others, and when they were wrong promptly and
repeatedly told them about it.
11. Sought through nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand
them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.
12. Having had a complete physical, emotional and spiritual breakdown as a result of these
steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.
From The ACA Communicator - March 1990 - Omaha, Council Bluffs Area Intergroup.
Pat Nordman
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