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		<title>The Case for Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2nd Step]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two years now I have struggled against the idea of God, against the word God, against the proofs of God and His love that I hear people talk about all the time, and I have struggled against them to the point that in order to give myself some peace of mind I simply dismissed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Short Prayer</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/short-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony H. from Pacific Palisades was a guest on a TV show awhile back and he related the following story: &#8220;I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, &#8216;fuck it,&#8217; as in &#8216;fuck it; it&#8217;s in God&#8217;s hands.&#8217;&#8221; I wish to God it was that easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One breath at a time.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/hope-principles/breath-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the best thing I&#8217;ve done for my recovery in a long time is to start to sponsor a practicing Buddhist.  It has added a sense of urgency for me to revisit all that 2nd &#38; 3rd step stuff that I&#8217;ve struggled with ever since my surgery.]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Night</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/winter-night/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/winter-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st Step]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moments of Clarity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sobriety anniversary is very important to me and it&#8217;s coming up here soon, but it doesn&#8217;t quite move me the same way December 13th does.  December 13th, today, happens also to be my birthday, but my God, I&#8217;m 44 years old.  My &#8220;birthday&#8221; is not really a big deal anymore.  No, the anniversary I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back from the dead</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/gratitude/back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am really feeling grateful for my life today.  And I&#8217;m feeling especially grateful for the time that I spent with my sponsor up in Atlanta and everything that has followed. Friday night I got to take one of my favorite people, Jill, the friend who let me detox at her house, out for dinner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scarlet Letter</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/honesty-principles/the-scarlet-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. Atheist. Two and a half years sober and I find myself so fucked off about the conception of god that I got sober with that I can&#8217;t live joyfully. In all likelihood I just haven&#8217;t given myself enough time to heal or something but at the moment it seems like the &#8220;power&#8221; that got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;ll be just like starting over.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/hope-principles/itll-be-just-like-starting-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody told me that, and honestly, Iâ€™m not sure I would have been able to hear them if they did, but man-o-man it is an important thing to realize.Â  Thatâ€™sÂ  my experience anyway. You see, this isnâ€™t my first rodeo.Â  I had over 2 years sobriety on another occasion and I suffered a major illness.Â  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Day One</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/honesty-principles/day-one/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/honesty-principles/day-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[early recovery from smoking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the first day of recovery, again, for my first sponsee, Joe, who had the courage this morning, to admit that he relapsed.Â  Perhaps it wasn&#8217;t courage really so much as the absense of an adequate denial.Â  And perhaps it&#8217;s not the first day of a new recovery.Â  Okay.Â  Let me just be honest.Â  He&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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