{"id":1673,"date":"2016-08-20T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2016-09-05T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:29:46","slug":"bring-the-message-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Bring the Message Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bring the Message Home<\/p>\n<p>Can we bring the same Spirit of Love and Tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group? &#8211; TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp.111-12.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1675\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-6-e1473092727482.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-6-300x112.jpeg\" alt=\"Practice Spirit of Love and Tolerance\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Practice Spirit of Love and Tolerance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My family members suffer from the effects of my disease. Loving and accepting them as they are just as I love and accept A.A. members fosters a return of love, tolerance and harmony to my life. Using common courtesy and respecting others&#8217; personal boundaries are necessary practices for all areas of my life. &#8211; Daily Reflections. \u00a9 1990 Alcoholics Anonymous A.A. World Services.<\/p>\n<p>Acceptance is the Key to Serenity.<\/p>\n<p>Turn Turn Turn<br \/>\nPete Seeger (1965).<br \/>\nperformed by The Byrds<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4ga_M5Zdn4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To everything, turn, turn, turn.<br \/>\nThere is a season, turn, turn, turn.<br \/>\nAnd a time to every purpose under heaven.<br \/>\nA time to be born, a time to die.<br \/>\nA time to plant, a time to reap.<br \/>\nA time to kill, a time to heal.<br \/>\nA time to laugh, a time to weep.<\/p>\n<p>To everything, turn, turn, turn.<br \/>\nThere is a season, turn, turn, turn.<br \/>\nAnd a time to every purpose under heaven.<br \/>\nA time to build up, a time to break down.<br \/>\nA time to dance, a time to mourn.<br \/>\nA time to cast away stones.<br \/>\nA time to gather stones together.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Seeger wrote this song inspired by the Book of Ecclesiastes in the 1950s. The storyline in the Book of Ecclesiastes has moved many religious leaders as a contemplative inward self-reflecting theme. The Book of Ecclesiastes centers on King Solomon who relates to many experiences we may all relate to in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring the Message Home Can we bring the same Spirit of Love and Tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group? &#8211; TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp.111-12. My family members suffer from the effects of my disease. Loving and accepting them as they are just as I love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/?p=1673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring the Message Home<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64,58,59],"tags":[65,61,21],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-a","category-reflection","category-spirit-on-the-as","tag-a-a","tag-spirit-on-the-as","tag-spiritofpeace-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bring the Message Home - Spirit of Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.peacelcmc.org\/?p=1673\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bring the Message Home - Spirit of Peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bring the Message Home Can we bring the same Spirit of Love and Tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group? &#8211; TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp.111-12. 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