This afternoon I got to talk to a guy trying to get started in recovery. I was talking to him about how he is doing and he said his moral was good. Later during our conversation I was trying to help him see that the inventory process would help him to depend on spiritual vitalization rather than his circumstances. I tried to explain to him that the moral inventory would reconfigure his values, fears, and dependencies so that the core motives that drive his feelings, decisions and emotions would be restored to sanity. I received an inspiration to tell him to think of the moral inventory in this sense as a moral' inventory. I told him how I thought of the moral inventory as trying to get me to live by someone else morality probably their religion that I didn't agree with but that it turned out to be something more, something than changed me and changed my outlook on life.

It was a wonderful stormy morning. We got two waves of storms overnight and another at mid-morning. I was very busy but stopped for a moment to stare out the window overlooking South Austin. Just then a lightning bolt struck with multiple bursts and a return stroke. The bolt looked like a hand with the thumb hitting the lightning rod of the 360 tower and the fingers hitting in the trees and homes of the Bouldin neighborhood across the lake.

At noon I got to go to a meeting, we read from To Employers about the disease concept and the misconceptions of normal people.

Today I was never very afraid, resentful, dishonest or selfish. I don't owe any apologies and I didn't create any chaos.

Tonight I got to take my son for a haircut and get one too. We saw an old friend of mine there who now has a 2 year old son of his own. I took my son to dinner after that and we saw an old friend of my wife with his girlfriend and her son of a different race than the boyfriend. I got to be a kind friend to them.

Thanks be to God for a great day.