Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature and your life. This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow,
When looking back on your life you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failure followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have nowThe dark night of the soul comes just before revelation
My sobriety is contingent on my spiritual well being today
Great share. I feel like failure and wreckage present us with two opportunities: 1. Submit to self-pity and blame, and keep tumbling deeper into the darkness. Or, 2. Turn it over to a higher power, grow from it, and become stronger, better people who are useful to others. In my experience drinking, as an alcoholic I always chose the first option. Every harm was an opportunity to get drunk and exacerbate my selfishness. Only in recovery have I been able to begin the journey toward understanding that not all harms are about me as a victim, and that nobody has ever orchestrated as much pain in my life as my own ego. As always, grateful for the promises of this program.
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When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.-Paul Brunton
Excellent follow-up post Adam ... I can relate to your 1st option so very well ... and also your 2nd as I, too, have learned that this option far outweighs the first ...
Don't know why, but I just thought of that old hit song of Garth Brooks ... 'Thank God for Unanswered Prayers' ... meaning, if I'd gotten what I prayed for years ago, I wouldn't be half the man I am today ... AND that I feel much better about 'what' I ask for today than how I used to pray ... I have learned to pray more for other's 'well being' and not so much for myself ...
Truly amazing what one learns in this program, huh??? ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
