....."tried to practice these principals in all our affairs"
Wooooohoooooo........thats a toughie today! People drive me crazy you know! The committee of idiots that lives in my head gets very judgemental about others. I caught myself thinking of others as "stupid" and "idiots" and other even worse things today. I would say a quick prayer...go through a mental gratitude list....and then WHAM! Another dumb person would come along and tick me off. Now...on the plus side...I didnt act on my frustrations. I didnt blow up...didnt get rude or short-tempered......didnt drink...didnt drug.....I just prayed, conected with my sponsor, went to a meeting and talked with my sponsee. Life on life's terms, eh? Some days are easier than others. Thanks for listening.
Glad you got through, Julie! One day in a meeting I was feeling kind of like you described and re-wrote the SP for a venting laugh...
God grant me the serenity to accept people who won't change to suit me, the courage to tell them to pull their heads out of their a**, and the wisdom to walk away before I throttle them.
The world is full of dumb people, the average IQ is under 100. But only you can piss you off, just as only we can decide if we're going to have a good day, good time, or are going to be grateful or not. Gratitude = Happiness, Acceptance > fear , and Love > hate.
That statement "....In all of our affairs" should have the word "today" in it. "ALL" sounds pretty ominous to me, and that doesn't go along well with "one day at a time". If I can "practice these principals Today in all of my affairs" that sound a bit more doable, otherwise it sounds like some unachievable thing that I just need to think about doing Tomorrow.
Were in the same classroom...Where the heck are you? Stand up and raise your hand, I am...When we spot each other we can start laughing about taking ourselves soooo seriously. I need to drive around with my emergency flashers on so that the world can avoid me. Can't you just hear God laugh!!
Amen to this thread, lol. At my home group some silly fellow totally ignorantly made a mess and didn't clean it up, with absolutely no thought for the church people who will use the room the next morning or to the fact that if they find the room a mess they would might see that as part of the reason not to rent us the room anymore. Classic alkie: I'll take what you have and screw you.
I cleaned it up afterward of course, but it still pissed me off, lol.
Serenity prayer worked! I didn't take the guy to task, I just cleaned it up.
Thankfully the step says we 'tried'. It doesn't say we have to or we must.
I put forth the effort to do the best I can. and yeah ... theres gonna be some ppl in my daily journey that upset me. And there are gonna be times I may not know what to do to deal with it. But I certainly know what not to do and that would be to pick up a drink over it. That is simply old behavior .
When I change my thinking, I change my actions/behaviors. And I gotta ask God to help me change my thinking.
Good for you Julie, signs of growth and you shared them here . thanks for helping me remember how its done .
"..we Tried to Practice these Principles in All our Affairs....
You hit the nail on the head today....
Differert senario for me as of yesterday, have been doing a lot of Praying over some pretty intense physical pain, and did get to the place where I could see that what was the bigger problem was the Fear of it, and GOD did get me to a place where I could see and moreso feel, so clearly, What does this have to do with my own febble daily practice of "Your Will, not mine, Be Done!" So the fear of what does this fear have to do with any reality, and my worst fear, as BikerBill wrote to me yesterday, (he is also going thru some of this stuff) will THIS be the one time I will not recover from this disability, did I do too much damage, then put it in the prespective of .....God will reveal any and all questions, in HIS Time, not mine.....
So for myself this morning, with the help of this great Post, (thanks so much) I am going to use the Montra of ...Practice these Priniples in all our Affairs....and follow it with...Praying ONLY for the knowledge of HIS Will and the Power to carry that out.
"All our affairs, yours was sort of resenting others, and mine was the personal pain, but they both fit so perfectly into the ALL our Affairs"
Taking our own Will back, with the 'Yeah But! exception, can be and proves over and over again that I am and always will be a Work in Progress.
Thanks Jerry, you made me smile WE are all in the Same classroom. So I want to raise my hand and ask THE Teacher, about the saying of "The Path from Idealism to the Path of Realism..., is One Bumpy Path"...... Ok, THE teacher saw that I raised my hand, and HIS answer was so clear....PROGRESS.....Not Perfection.....
Awe, beautiful summerlike day here, so no complaints out me this am.
The world is full of A-holes and obsticles and the only way they can control our emotions is if we let them. I refuse to let them control me, when they pop up I remind myself that I can start my day over at any time.
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Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll learn.
"...tried to practice these principles in all our affairs."
Imagine the utopian world we'd live in if everybody tried to live by the 12 Steps! (in Step One, substitute "things we cannot change" for "alcohol") Sure, there would still be problems-- but far less hatred and probably no war at all.
Yeah, I know-- I'm just a burned-out old hippie. But ya gotta admit that AA is all about Peace & Love! I can dig that.
