Free Kindle Workbooks (can be read on any Mac or PC)

Forgiveness in Early Recovery by Ken Montrose

Written for people new to recovery, this workbook helps the reader develop a realistic outlook on forgiveness. Basic, and sometimes difficult, truths discussed in Forgiveness include:

▸ The people we hope will forgive us don’t have to.

▸ Seeing the other person’s point of view isn’t always easy, our point of view may not be easy for them to see.

▸ We do well to practice the AA slogan: ‘clean your side of the street.’

▸ Forgiveness is a wonderful gift, but one we may have to give judiciously.

▸ Part of recovery is learning to forgive ourselves.

Available free of charge  January 29^th – February 2^nd at: https://www.amazon.com/Ken-Montrose/e/B001K8MG0S

Smart Bears, Angry Rats: A Somewhat Sci-Fi Daily Recovery Message Novella by Ken Montrose

Smart Bears, Angry Rats is another in a series of thought-for-the day books, focused on recovery, but applicable to everyday life. A book within a book, Smart Bears, Angry Rats tells the story of a scientist seventy-five years into the future trying to cure cancer. He hopes to win back his estranged wife, but becomes addicted to a drug called “Lil' Bit” instead. Carelessness leads to chemically enhanced mice escaping, with dire consequences 150 years from now. The reader peers over my shoulder in present day through the eyes of my wife and children while I conjure up the daily messages.

Here's an excerpt:

Somes

Blondie was reading over my shoulder. "If the world is as bleak as you paint it to be," my daughter asked, "then why does Sonya seem sorta happy?"

"She believes in 'somes'."

"Sums?"

"Somes. Somebody, somewhere, is working on something better. When your grandmother was a little girl, cancer was a death sentence. She was diagnosed at forty-five and lived another thirty-five years. Why? Somebody, somewhere, working on something came up with better cancer treatment."

"Wasn't it somebody working on something in a lab that caused the whole world to collapse in your story? In fact, wasn't he working on a cure for cancer?"

"Yep. You can focus on bitter ironies, or you can have hope. Sonya has hope."

Today I will have some hope, and hope in the somes.

Available free of charge  January 29th – February 2nd at: https://www.amazon.com/Ken-Montrose/e/B001K8MG0S