Living life on life's terms. Wow! Some days that's a tough one. Human nature of the female kind wants me to able to "fix" everything for everyone. Learning that I can't has been one of the biggest obstacles I'm having to overcome. Some days all I can do is ask God for help. Not "help me do this, that or the other" JUST 3 words, "help me, today". And when I retire at night without having had a drink and all I've got is "thank you", well that's enough too. So I wasn't able to get thru to someone, so what! The world won't end because of it. As long as I am grateful for the gift sobriety and I continue to work the Steps of AA, everything else will fall into place. Everything is just as it's supposed to be at this moment........
Thanks for letting me share.
Doll
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
"And acceptance is the answer to *all* my problems. today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation---some fact of my life---unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake..."
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Easy Does it..Keep It Simple..Let Go and Let God..
DOLL>>>>>>>>JUST 3 words, "help me, today". And when I retire at night without having had a drink and all I've got is "thank you", well that's enough too
ROSIE>>>>>>i have learned, that "help me today" in the morning and at night, "guide my recovery".....is good enuf for me.....i wake up w/out a hangover and with hope instead.......great share/ doll.....thanks.....hugs / rosie
Life happens sometimes. And the miracle of it all is still that I don't drink, no matter what happens. Early in recovery I learned that nothing was such a big deal I couldn't get through it.And I found that when I let go God could work the miracle easier.
