Post by caressa on Dec 13, 2004 7:29:12 GMT -5
What is Hope? Where do we look for it. Do we look to someone or something else, to fill our needs.
Are we self-sufficient and think no one else can help us, but ourselves. Do we place all our hope on ourselves, and when we fall short of our expectations, do we beat ourselves up, use and feel less than, which in turn gives us a false pride, ego, and sense of self. Are we full of despair and feel that there is no way out? Please keep coming, and if you don't get the program, the program will get you. It did me!
Trust is something we don't have a lot of and learning to put that trust in something else is a big risk in early recovery. Yet my best thoughts and actions got me here, and my first meeting gave me hope that finally I had found a way that worked. Something that would allow me to do what I had been trying to do for eight years before I got here. My first hope was that the program would work for me.
Are we self-sufficient and think no one else can help us, but ourselves. Do we place all our hope on ourselves, and when we fall short of our expectations, do we beat ourselves up, use and feel less than, which in turn gives us a false pride, ego, and sense of self. Are we full of despair and feel that there is no way out? Please keep coming, and if you don't get the program, the program will get you. It did me!
Trust is something we don't have a lot of and learning to put that trust in something else is a big risk in early recovery. Yet my best thoughts and actions got me here, and my first meeting gave me hope that finally I had found a way that worked. Something that would allow me to do what I had been trying to do for eight years before I got here. My first hope was that the program would work for me.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.