Maurice C. author of "God is at the Meeting; Spirituality and the Twelve Steps" speaks at graduation of "Treatment" Court
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Speaking at the proud graduation of 4 of the eight graduates of the Cumberland County Treatment Court in Pennsylvania, Maurice C, author of "God is at the Meeting: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps" (ISBN-10: 1449726232, ISBN-13: 978-1449726232) wishes well to the newest prospects for Alcoholics Anonymous and coerced participation in the ritual chanting and ceremonies to the false gods dreamed up by the delusional, belladonna and LSD enhanced Bill Wilson. I am sure this "Treatment" Court is Spiritual, not Religious.....
Eight graduate from Cumberland County Treatment Court
By Andrew Carr, Sentinel Reporter
Posted: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:00 am
The best part of Thursday for adult probation and parole officer Angie Chiara was being able to celebrate the change of eight lives.
“One of the most rewarding parts of being part of Treatment Court for me, is being able to watch the participants grow and change into the people they are today,” she said.
Four of the eight graduates of Cumberland County Treatment Court stood in front of a crowd Thursday to receive certificates stating that they had just graduated from the program.
The mission of the Treatment Court is to provide a cost-effective alternative to incarceration through a long-term, judicially monitored regime of treatment for non-violent substance dependant individuals. The program returns clean and sober individuals to the community after equipping them to maintain their sobriety and improve the quality of their lives, according to the program for the graduation ceremony.
The ceremony began with Judge Albert Masland speaking about the program and the hardships the graduates have had to overcome.
“Unless anyone be mistaken, this has not been an easy journey for our four graduates,” he said.
The program involves intense treatment, both with dependency and mental issues, to get to the bottom of the disease. The two-year program follows each individual through the judicially monitored treatment and supervision program for adults with chemical dependency who are charged with certain eligible felony crimes and facing criminal prosecution.
This option keeps non-violent offenders out of jail in a method of reducing both the drug usage and criminality of drug-using offenders, according to the Treatment Court participant’s guide.
Speakers
Maurice C., the author of “God is at the Meeting; Spirituality and the Twelve Steps” discussed what a chance it is that these graduates have been given, and congratulated the court on such an initiative.
“What you folks are doing is beyond anything I can imagine,” he said. “There are a lot of people with a lot at risk here. I encourage those in the program to take full advantage of it. The gift that you have here and in sobriety ... we spend a lot of time learning to be grateful.”
Maurice C., a former alcoholic has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for more than 25 years.
He spoke about the need to realize that there are people who care in the world and want to see others succeed, and accepting one for oneself and learning to live without drugs or alcohol......
Read more:http://cumberlink.com/news/local/eight-graduate-from-cumberland-county-t...
A little bit about Maurice C....
Maurice C. received the gift of sobriety more than twenty-five years ago through membership in Alcoholics Anonymous. Through AA, Maurice found the ability to let go of the past and let God take the future. In God Is at the Meeting, Maurice gives insight into a world where hurt and shame lead people to feel that they are "less than" and that they must build walls to protect themselves. Those walls get higher and higher until alcohol or drugs seem to be the only relief. Once enslaved, the alcoholic tries desperately to maintain and strengthen the walls of self-protection, to do it all on his or her own until, finally, the effort becomes too exhausting. If this is you-listen. You don't have to live that way any longer. There is a way out, and this way out has worked for thousands of people just like you for more than seventy-five years. If you will let Him, God will walk with you through the twelve steps to sobriety and a life without walls. This book is not meant in any way to replace the time-tested books of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is one man's insight into finding, leaning on and growing into a stronger relationship with God as you work through the steps.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/God-Meeting-Spirituality-Twelve-Steps/dp/144972623...
live_free_or_die
Fri, 06/22/2012 - 15:45
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Son of a bitch! AA is about god. So Maurice C says.
"Maurice C. received the gift of sobriety more than twenty-five years ago through membership in Alcoholics Anonymous. Through AA, Maurice found the ability to let go of the past and let God take the future. In God Is at the Meeting, Maurice gives insight into a world where hurt and shame lead people to feel that they are "less than" and that they must build walls to protect themselves. Those walls get higher and higher until alcohol or drugs seem to be the only relief. Once enslaved, the alcoholic tries desperately to maintain and strengthen the walls of self-protection, to do it all on his or her own until, finally, the effort becomes too exhausting. If this is you-listen. You don't have to live that way any longer. There is a way out, and this way out has worked for thousands of people just like you for more than seventy-five years. If you will let Him, God will walk with you through the twelve steps to sobriety and a life without walls. This book is not meant in any way to replace the time-tested books of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is one man's insight into finding, leaning on and growing into a stronger relationship with God as you work through the steps."
Well judge bucket, there ya go, ya can't quit alcohol without god. By defualt, AA is about god.
Alcoholics Anonymous: MyNotGodHasItCovered®
http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/
Free
Mon, 06/25/2012 - 17:46
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Yes, it was the realization that the foundation,
the very core of the program, is the need for a belief in an interventionist god, that enabled me to leave aa. I was bamboozled by a very clever therapist/ stepper's convoluted logic. He would tell me what I believed! I saved this text from him:
'My belief is that you're disillusioned with the people in Aa - it's pretty hard to be disillusioned with the program if it's practiced properly. Like you have issues with your concept of higher power - not higher power itself. What Aa offers is a dynamic spiritual program which is a blueprint for an authentic life of integrity and a path for continued growth and humility. Aa itself is full of humans failing, though trying (some harder than others) to follow the program - you and me included. The way we feel about Aa is always a mirror for what's going on in us.'
See, I was wrong, always wrong. Yeah sure, I was disillusioned with some of the people, although I certainly did/ do believe that many are sincere. But, it was the realisation that the program itself is flawed that made continued attendance impossible.
And I still feel a bit confused and torn, because this therapist did in fact help me immeasurably in other areas.
JR Harris
Thu, 06/28/2012 - 06:51
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"My belief is that you're disillusioned with the people in Aa"
I believe that the councilor that said this to you is extremely demented. You can say that same thing about anything, just substitute "Scientology", "Nazism", "KKK" or even "Sesame Street." This appears to be his "canned speech" to talk anyone into anything.
Hopefully this counselor will never find his way into getting a job at the Burning Tree Ranch Rehab in Texas. If Burning Tree Ranch can't get you to admit you're an Alcoholic, No one can...(Being an Alcoholic is NOT required, only an easily manipulated and gullible loved one with a big pocket book or a power of attorney over the prospects assets.) http://orange-papers.org/forum/node/1753
"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.
Orange
Thu, 06/28/2012 - 13:41
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Satan at the Meeting
Maybe I have too wild of an imagination, but as I read about that book, "God is at the Meeting: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps", I saw a movie in my head where, at a meeting of Satanists for Sobriety, the group secretary was grandly bragging,