Had a wonderful, sober long weekend with the family! Thanksgiving was great and I have a lot to be thankful for.
Now to the subject. I firmly believe that my God will not give me any more than i can handle. I have been SEVERELY tested over the last 24 hours! Flight out of Michigan was delayed for almost three hours. Got to Chicago around midnight CST. No big deal right? Got a lovely 4 hours of sleep in a smelly hotel room (sorry Radisson, but it smelled funny). Still no big deal. got to the airport this morning to find that my flight to Oklahoma City has been delayed. Just want to get home.
What I had not realized till this morning that I must have walked past a dozen bars or so in the last 24 hours and did not even think about drinking at all, primarialy because I was preoccupied with a different task. For me, that works. Meetings, reading the Big Book and the traditions, working the steps with my sponsor......they ALL keep me occupied and my mind off booze. I don't know why this hit me this morning but as I look back over the events of the last week, I have been able to keep myself occupied with my recovery.........been a great week!
Sorry to ramble......just something that was on my mind.
Meetings, reading the Big Book and the traditions, working the steps with my sponsor......they ALL keep me occupied and my mind off booze. I don't know why this hit me this morning but as I look back over the events of the last week, I have been able to keep myself occupied with my recovery
It's amazing how that works....Before you know it...The obsession has been lifted...The same worked for me. I guess that's where the saying....It works if we work it comes from. Great share ST. I'm glad your holiday went well.
Sounds like recovery is settling in nicely ST! God was working in your life and you didn't even know it at the time. Awesome to read! Keep at it. It keeps getting better.
Your share sounds a lot like the 10th step promise:
And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
(((Standing Tall))...not rambling to me at all, and just love to read how you are doing and how you got through some things which would have made others pick up a drink--you remained strong. Great for you!
I learned from those new priorities myself. When sobriety, my recovery, became the most important thing in my life (and still is) Alcohol and drinking became the least. Thank you God, AA and every recovering fellow who has ever straightened the picture with me in the past.
Hi Standing Tall; Very glad to hear things are going much better. Keep going one-day-at-a-time. If it works for somebody like me, I know it'll work for you. Congrats. Blessings, Mike D.
