“You must speak straight so that your words go as sunlight into our hearts.”

Cochise “Like Ironweed”   Chiricahua Apache

  

 

 

 

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 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.

Big Book  pg. 83

  

 

 

Great Spirit help me, help me to speak straight.