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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>
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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>What still haunts me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m mostly okay now.  Most of the time it feels almost like none of it ever happened; like my life in addiction was a bad dream.  Looking back it is almost incomprehensible to me how far I had fallen, how much I suffered, how much effort and pain it took to get through to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies From Heaven</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/promises/pennies-from-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first. For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.&#8221;  -Alcoholics Anonymous I&#8217;m still doing my usual routine, staying close to sober friends, attending meetings, writing inventory when it is indicated, seeing my sponsor regularly; [...]]]></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>
				<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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		<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>Cheer for the Willing</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/cheer-for-the-willing/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/cheer-for-the-willing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I witnessed one of the greatest acts of faith and willingness I&#8217;ve ever seen in someone new to recovery. I don&#8217;t even know what word describes how I feel. Fulfilled. Grateful. Sruprised, Happy. Blessed. I don&#8217;t know. Full. I feel full. I&#8217;ve been spending more time with the Cheerleader lately and I&#8217;ve been doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My water is turned off.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/early-recovery/acceptance/my-water-is-turned-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not because of a bill or anything. It&#8217;s included in the rent, so they must be doing some kind of repair or something, but the fact remains my water is turned off.Â  And I haven&#8217;t showered.Â  And I&#8217;m supposed to be at work in half an hour.Â  I just this second remembered that I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sunday Spiritual Meeting</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didnâ€™t have to work yesterday and I got up pretty early with the intention of getting a bunch of chores done. By 10 o&#8217;clock I realized that unless I got up and left the house for awhile that nothing was going to get done, There is a Sunday morning meeting here that is very [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/the-god-of-cash-and-prizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open-Mindedness]]></category>
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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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