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Post by caressa on Mar 3, 2005 17:05:40 GMT -5
This reminds me that I didn't get this way overnight and that recovery is not a quick fix, it is an ongoing process.
The person that came into recovery is no more, the person who was, before recovery is no more, the person who is today, hopefully will progress to someone who is no more and goes on to be a new 'light' being, a Child of God, walking in His Light.
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Post by lildee on Mar 4, 2005 7:05:27 GMT -5
Excellent post my friend. While thrown into the chaos of our situation we have no time to sit and wait for changes. The world around us is upside down and spinning in circles. But with the fortitude that God has given us the change does come. Albeit not with the rapidity that we would like, but that is part of our illness. With time my attitude changed and I am getting better. I remember early in recovery my sponsor told me to mind my own business and stay out of the "A"s stuff. At that time I almost found that a personal affront, but now today I say those very words to my sponsees. So changes do happen.
Love & God Bless Arlene
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Post by majestyjo on Mar 21, 2015 14:31:12 GMT -5
This is an affirmation of an earlier thought I had today. As SG likes to say, "Nothing changes if nothing changes. It is taking the focus off the 'A' in my life and looking at my own addictions and obsessions that I use to escape my own reality.
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Post by majestyjo on Nov 13, 2016 2:35:40 GMT -5
Live in today, live in the moment. Turn your life over to the God of your understanding and He will direct your path. We live this life one day at a time. Open the day with gratitude and end it with gratitude. A grateful addict/alcoholic will never have a reason to pick up. This applies to the family too. It is a family disease.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 3, 2019 23:48:31 GMT -5
As I have shared many times, I had one reason to go to NA, for identification I knew I was an addict. My drug of choice was more.
I had one reason to go to AA, for my denial and it wasn't until I looked at pills as dried up alcohol. Then I could idenfy more with the people in the rooms. I went to CA and they said ... and all mind altering substances, and at the time had some "C" words of my own to deal with like cigarettes, control, caretaking, codependency, and computers.
When I found Al-Anon I qualified big time. My mom died at the age of 40 because she used food to deal with my father's alcoholism, my father died as a result of his disease. I was in two abusive marriages and both ex-husband's could have used a 12 Step program. My son is a self-admitted alcoholic/addict.
It doesn't matter which room you put me in, I qualify. I was grateful that I found AA before I went to ACOA. I IDENIFIED so much with Adult Children of Alcoholics, I might have died from my denial.
The common denominator of all the fellowships are the 12 Steps. May you ever walk in the Fellowship of the Spirit.
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