Courage

[caressa]

COURAGE
"We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do." - Richard L. Evans

What is courage? Many of us think it involves surviving against all odds. Some of us believe courage is personified by an individual like Helen Keller, who coped with many physical defects to vastly change her life and the lives of those around her. Others of us believe courage is personified by people like astronaut John Glenn, who took risks trying something new knowing he could fail.

Are we courageous? Compared to those people we would probably say no. Yet we are because we have taken risks to change our lives. Being willing to change is an act of courage. Believing in change and forging ahead on the new, uncharted path is an act of courage.

We are the only ones who can change ourselves. Just as Helen Keller and John Glenn made decisions to alter their lives, so do we make decisions to risk changes. Whether we started on our new way of life years ago, days ago, or even hours ago, we are filled with courage because of the decisions we made.

I can say the Serenity Prayer and remember my courage.

open-mind.org/Daily/

Courage comes from within when I surrender to my Higher Power and ask for help, of myself, I can not make the changes. In order to find the courage, I need to find acceptance. Acceptance of what is in the moment starts the process, it doesn't happen all at once, for me it was in very small increments.

[gb]

Has this whole chat group gone defunct? Is anyone there? There doesn't seen to be any posts for quite awhile. I hope someone is there. I have questions. Many.
I would like to chat. Where is the discussion for Nar-Anon? Thanks. Any evening chat groups. Anything? I guess I'm not good at web searches, this was about the only site I found that I could get into. Write soon. Thanks in advance.

[sj]

I'm new too gb, it's a bit early to see how much is/isn't happening around here.
I don't think I can help much, I don't know much about rehab etc, I'm just at the beginning of maybe trying to do something about my problems. I'm always happy to chat though, and I have far too much time next to my pc!

[majestyjo]

Sorry no one responded to your posts. The chat room is not operating here to my knowledge and hasn't for some time.

There hasn't been much posting on the site, I just respond to what I read or bring up a topic I need to share on.

Some times it takes courage to get out of bed and face the day. Thanks to recovery, that is no longer an issue. Some days, it takes courage to say what I really want to say, but that takes prayer and prudence.

The Fifth Tradition says, "...our primary purpose is to carry the message:

5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to others who still suffer.[/img]

So grateful that I can't wear out the Serenity Prayer.