WARNINGS

[Rusty Zipper]

and now my personal fave,

and also from our R.B.A. Home Page!

http://www.ratbustersanonymous.com/

"The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept he home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined. To his wife, he remarked, "Don't see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain't it grand the wind stopped blowin'?"

"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."

[Rusty Zipper]

pg. 83

"The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles,

we think we ought not to urge them. We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters."

[Butterfly Woman]

Probably there are still some misgivings. As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis. Let us be reassured. To some people we need not, and probably should not emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach. We might prejudice them. At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us. It is seldom wise to approach an individual, who still smarts from our injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious. In the prize ring, this would be called leading with the chin. Why lay ourselves open to being branded fanatics or religious bores? We may kill a future opportunity to carry a beneficial message. But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong. He is going to be more interested in a demonstration of good will than in our talk of spiritual discoveries.

[Rusty Zipper]

pg. 83

"There may be some wrongs we can never fully right.

We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves,

that we would right them if we could."

[Rusty Zipper]

the warnings continue on Part 2

http://www.ratbustersanonymous.com/forum...l#pid36002