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SoberSteve


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I have had more miracles happen these last 45 days than I can count!  I am very excited to see what is in store for me in the future as long as I keep doing the work.  I am just curious to how your life has changed and what promises have come true for you.  Thanks



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Besides the usual stuff like learning to like me, getting along with my family, and wonderful spiritual life, the gifts are many. Watching people turn their life around in this program continues to amaze me. Made a lot of friends in and out of the program. Had my son come and live with me for the last 6 years of his childhood. I've been self employed for my entire sobriety. A great relationship with my wife of 18 years. Been able to pursue many hobbies, several which include a fair amount of travel. Having the time and resources to design and build my own home, on a mountain, has been a terrific experience and could only be possible through learning how to enjoy the journey, as it's taking 8 years so far and I'm not tired of it. lol

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All of them to some degree.

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It gets Better every day Steve....Just don't pick up. I saw three people today that didn't make it through Thanksgiving...The anguish on their faces says it all. Pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. It hurts me to see it and sends me a clear message....Don't pick up! How has my life changed...As a result of taking these steps...Instead of looking forward to Happy Hour and a brutal hangover...I look forward to quiet time in the morning...Prayer and meditation....I can't get enough of step 11. That is the cement for me. I try and go through a day with the intention of seeing what I can do for someone instead of what I can get from someone...I can spend time with my real family and see joy in their faces....And all I am doing is what I should have always been doing...Living sober. And I have a new family...Friends like I have never had before. Friends that are friends. Those Miracles you are seeing Steve have always been there....You are just starting to see them again...There is so much more to come...Just keep on trudging. Get honest with yourself and work those steps....Learn to ask your HP and your sponsor for guidance....That's what they are there for. I'll tell you what...I wish I knew about this site when I was starting these steps....There is a wealth of information here and quality sobriety...I can feel that...More will be revealed.

Stay safe, sane and sober!

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Significant reduction in the anxiety and insomnia I have dealt with since I was a teenager... long before I started drinking.

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Hi Steve,
all of the above have happened for me and more than I could possibly write here. But there is more, a sort of intangible side to things that has come through the steps. I was at a steps meeting on Thursday night and we were reading step 5. Every paragraph was leaping off the page at me, that's true! I know it to be true! I have felt that! I have experienced that! Then I began to reflect about the time I took step 4 and 5 with my sponsor. Part of the work was to read the 12&12 on these steps beforehand and my reaction was quite different. For the most part what I saw was just words describing feelings I had never felt, experiences I had never experienced, a whole lot of stuff that really meant nothing to me. In a way the only thing I got from reading the step was if I don't do this I may not overcome drinking. As I had become willing to go to any lengths, I pressed on anyway, and I received the promised rewards, only now I can feel them, I have experienced them, now I understand! Have faith my brother, what you read in the book is all true and it will all come to pass and you will know what it all means if you take those simple steps.

God Bless,
Mike H.

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Thanks everyone, I was surprised I had no thoughts of drinking at all yesterday and the holidays are usually tough for me. I have had a cold the last few days and a good friend of the family died yesterday morning but the thought didnt even cross my mind. Instead I finished my second step and am meeting with my sponsor friday to go over it and start the 3rd!

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Well done Steve,
Christmas is our big event here and many members get nervous around this time. I never have. Christmas is the time of year I am most grateful to be sober, because for me it was the time I had the biggest disasters , did the most harm. Now its such a wonderful thing to be involved in with the family. One of so many blessings that come with sobriety.

God bless,
Mike.

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Hey Sober Steve,
It is a miracle isn't it? For me it was a Horatio Alger novel. In other words, hard work pays off. 12 simple steps maintained one day at a time gives you your life back. On Christmas, I found that if you can keep the spiritual part at the forefront, you will not be bothered by doubt. Sometimes the material things drag out your demon. You inspire me--keep it up.
Tom

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Hey SoberSteve, ...

My life has done a 180 since I started living the program ... Perhaps some people don't need a 'program' to live a good life, but I do ... well, I do know a lot of people that don't drink that could beneift by a 'program' for themselves, Ha! ... How has my life changed? Well, rather than living and making one insane judgement right after the other, I now have come to know what sanity is all about ... and the miracles?, Well, I start each and every day now recognizing the miracle of a new day without a hangover and my thinking is based now on what I can do for others rather than what can I do today to get what I want ... This is a HUGE change for me ...

The biggest one promise that I know would not ever come to me without the program, is the TRUE 'Peace & Serenity' that I now enjoy every moment of every day ... That feeling of uselessness and self-pity has indeed disappeared, and I HAVE come to know a new freedom and a new happiness I would have never thought possible ... Every day is a good day now ... Oh, yes, there are some trying moments from time to time, but I've learned how to handle them like it says, ... things that used to baffled us will disappear also because we'll know how to handle them, intuitively ...

The only thing that would make my life any Better? ... Would be the satisfaction in knowing that God through using me, led more people to this 'way-of-life' ... and I am very grateful for the opportunity to do so!


Love ya man and God Bless,
Pappy



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