Do you feel like you have nothing to contribute that anything you might say is not going to help another person?

Well, welcome to episode 150 of the Recovery Show. We are friends and family members of

alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. We who live

or have lived with the seemingly helpless problem of addiction,

understand as perhaps a few others can.

My name is Spencer and I'm your host today.

This is another short one coming down with a cold so canceled my scheduled recording but then I was

Inspired by a reading in church this morning and I'm now sitting out in the woods behind church

recording this. The reading was titled Commitment and it said in part people

say what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that

we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions.

Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.

And so I want to dedicate today's show to your voice, because when you share your experience,

strength and hope, or your fears and your sadness it touches the rest of us and this is how we

help one another in

now and on this by sharing our own experience,

strength, and hope.

Whether we feel that we have an answer or not. Our experience, our understanding may strike a deep cord in somebody else who we may never know it but it is true and so our words are

cast out like a pebble into a pond and spread out in ripples and effect and help and support other people in the program.

So I wanted to sort of leave the rest of this program for your voices as expressed in your emails and your voicemails over the last couple of weeks.

I just want to share a little bit of where I've been in my program and how I'm using my

program in recovery over the last week

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