A Dozen Steps

A Remorseful Mumbling

by Mark on September 6th, 2006

I often enjoy the way they phrased some of their writings and this is another. From page 83;

“Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take the lead. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won’t fill the bill at all. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.”

How many times did I/we use the words “I’m sorry” in order to get them to like us again? Get them off our backs? Stop naggin’ me…

Hollow and shallow. Meaningless. Self-consumed, personal agenda type stuff. Remorseful mumblings…

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