When all else is lost, the future still remains. --Christian Bovee
Ours is a program of hope. We sit in meetings and give each other hope. For no matter how long we have been sober - five days or thirty years - there will be times when we feel horrible. This is life. In everyone's life there are times of wonderful joy, but also times of incredible pain.
If we act from our values and the spiritual principles given to us by our Higher Power, pain will be transformed into growth and new understanding. Pain is transitory and softens with time.
These are the lessons of recovery. Bad times can be transformed into growth and joy.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, I give You my pain and I ask You to show me the lessons I'm to learn. I ask for Your help in holding on to hope. Help me to never forget that You and others are with me.
Today's Action
Today I will list the times during my active addiction that I felt most hopeless. Then I will think of what lessons I learned from these moments. How did others, my Higher Power, and I transform these moments?
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
I dont think i would be here today if i had not learn how to walk threw my pain.
The 12 steps God help me with that ,,and threw that i learn to grow, today i dont Fear Pain , i dont like it but it is necessary , because what is on the other side . Bill W wrote Pain is the Touch tone of spiritual progress.
Hi Bluesman, ... yeah, my journey through the pain of recovery was a tough one too ... the damage I had done was enormous and the emotional pain associated with recovery was huge ... I am sure I wouldn't have made it to the other side without my faith, hope, and love in God, my higher power ...
Now, the physical pain we go through when our bodies learn to live without the alcohol is also nearly as crippling as well ... and again, I am grateful to my HP for the will to endure and proceed to the other side ...
And I must add that the prayers and support of my AA family here and elsewhere has helped me through this latest bout with pain associated with my cancer recovery ... it's NO 'walk in the park' but I believe I can see the end of the tunnel from here ...
Love you guys and God Bless, Pappy
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
