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Fun in the Sun - A Panama City Tale

FUN IN THE SUN

May 1, 1998 "How are you being restored to sanity?" This question was put to the attending members at the annual Fun in the Sun Convention in Panama City Beach this year and the responses noted by a member. Members with different clean time were called on to respond and these are the spiritual principles one member heard in their responses.

30 days: surrender

6 months: control, resistance t ochange, insanity

6 months: gratitude, fun

18 months: prayer, insanity, honesty, willing, openmindedness

2 years: faith, gratitude

2 years: gratitude, coming to believe, belief, God

3 years: come to believe, follow directions

3 years: prayer and action, service, love

3 years: service

3 years: insanity/acceptance, peace of mind, trust in process

3 1/2 years: truth

5 years: God's will, control, prayer, honesty, loving God, blessings, follow directions

5 years: simplicity, gratitude, unworthy, sane, fellowship, grateful

5 years: love and care, more will be revealed, faith, fellowship, steps, sanity

5 years: change, assertiveness, process, self-respect, self-acceptance, self-love

5 years: just for today, face reality, inventory, sponsorship, action, family, gratitude, turn it over

8 years: obsessive/compulsive, insanity, serenity prayer, aceptance, steps, conscious contact, inventory, surrender

12 years: loss of self, service, foundation, change, knowledge, awareness, self-acceptance, anonymity

16 years: delusion, insnaity, self-acceptance, gratitude