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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Old Ideas</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/old-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.&#8221; -Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 Some of us have tried to hold on to them without even knowing that is what we&#8217;re doing, until it bites us. I was thinking about my conversation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally duplicate work I produce elsewhere, but there are only so many ways you can say the same thing.Â  In this case, it&#8217;s something I need to say in every channel I write in. Just like with drugs and alcohol, it seems to be a natural part of my character that until I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God of Cash and Prizes</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/the-god-of-cash-and-prizes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post over at the Second Road the other day about the hurdles we face in finding the Higher Power of 12 step programs. The idea for the post came from a conversation I had with a friend a few nights ago wherein he told me that the only &#8216;God&#8217; he was willing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want to make this about religion . . .</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/not-about-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tommy: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour? Hedwig: No, but I&#8230; I love his work. John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch I don&#8217;t want to make this about religion because it isn&#8217;t about religion. It&#8217;s about the same thing everything else here is about. Me. It&#8217;s what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School and Work are Fine</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/schoo-and-work/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/schoo-and-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we have to listen to the same people tell the same stories at every meeting?"  Norman leaned over and asked me that at a meeting last night.  He's right, of course.  We hear the same people share the same stories day after day after day.  Particularly in a small city like mine where the fixtures at the meeting don't really change.  It is actually one of the things I like best about blogging.  It gives me the opportunity to take a look at today and apply the lens of the solution offered in 12 step programs.  It helps me see the present more clearly.  It gives me new stories; new experience, new strength and new hope. ]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Power, Thy Name is Mudd</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/higher-power-thy-name-is-mudd/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/higher-power-thy-name-is-mudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[â€œNevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure; having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.&#8221; Timothy 2;19 If the meeting I was at last night was the first AA meeting I had ever been to, I am quite sure I would have ran out the back door and never returned. Perhaps I should [...]]]></description>
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