we were sharing about hope and tools. lots of good things shared. one of the things that i re-remembered was it is not an argument if i don't participate.. and no matter what kind of a day it has been, if i haven't taken a drink, I won (was given strength to stay sober) and that makes it a good day. jj/sheila
-- Edited by jj on Tuesday 3rd of April 2012 07:18:05 PM
At the meetings I went to on Sunday, I shared that it took some time for me to develop a relationship with my higher power and that for many folks, there are not amazing "God" moments while you are still stuck in the wreckage created by drinking. I shared that this is why it was called "coming to believe" and not "already believed when I came in the door." A newcomer came up to me and told me that really helped and he didn't feel so lost any more because he didn't have his "God moment" yet.
That helped me a lot. It made me grateful I am even in the position to be helping others at all. It made me think back to when I was the one that needed to hear "If you don't believe, just believe that I believe." Well, I'm a believer now.
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I have had the flu and I keep thinking how I used to feel this lousy much of the time and how good being sober has felt. It's been a nice reminder of how sweet life is now. :)
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I think there's an invisible principle of living...if we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it work.
Well, I have ceased fighting anyone or anything, even alcohol. Sanity has returned, I am seldom interested in liquor. If tempted, I recoil as if from a hot flame. I react sanely and normally and all this has happened automatically. My new attitude toward liquor was given me without any thought or effort on my part. It just came! That is the miracle of it. I am not fighting it, nor am I avoiding temptation. I feel like I have been placed in a position of neutrality, safe and protected. I have not even sworn off. Instead the problem has been removed. It does not exist for me. I am not cocky but nor am I afraid. This is my experience (just as described on P85) provided I keep in fit spiritual condition. I keep in that condition by trying to practice the principles in all my affairs.
Short answer - God kept me sober, I never even thought about whether or not to drink.
Amen, Mike! How glorious it is to have that obsession lifted. :)
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I think there's an invisible principle of living...if we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. Its a lovely sight, watching it work.
My attention got caught and then riveted to the Bird of Paradise in my Avatar and I came to believe even deeper. This is the exclamation point to my 24/7 meditation..."God is".
Well what did I do today. I woke up, said my morning prayer which used to be a long one but has been shortened to "God please show me what to do today." I pulled a word out my god-box. Service. I sent a text message to half a dozen of my sponcees. Gotta love modern technology. Baked a cake for my home group. It's not birthday night but the members of the group work hard keeping the group alive so I thought I would bake them a cake. One of my newer sponcees called and said how grateful she was to have me as a sponsor. I tried to be humble about it because I know it wasn't me who kept her from slicing her wrists last week. God works through people. He just used the two of us to work a miracle that day. Sorry about the graphics, but alcoholism is no joke. It will kill us if we mess with it. Doing these things I do and always remembering that I suffer from alcoholism-not-alcoholwasm, that's what keeps me going.
Have a great day unless you have other plans.
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