good morning, Katie, so glad you dropped in. this morning i was reading the 12 and 12 and St Francis prayer fit so well with what it going on with me. i was just thinking about prayer and meditation and the 12 and 12 was so right about things.
here it is
Lord make me a channel of thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair, I may bring hope - that where there are shadows, I may bring light - that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood - to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self forgetting that one finds. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen
Oh I really love that! I need to pick up and 12 X 12. I am planning on going to a meeting at noon today and then again at 7.
My best friend actually gave me the kick I needed to be brave enough to come back to the program. Hearing someone you love say you need to stop drinking really helps. Because most people tend to like...turn a blind eye.
So I have the support and love of my family to do this thing. It is weird because I go back and forth on the issue multiple times a day. One minute I am like..I need this, the other I feel FINE and dont want to go to meetings.
It gets confusing!
-- Edited by LucentSunbeam on Sunday 23rd of October 2011 11:38:25 AM
Lots of great sober women here and some nice guys too.
