Step Two speaks of believing

[majestyjo]

Keep It Simple

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.---Willaim James

Step Two speaks of believing. For many years, we had given up believing in ourselves, in a Higher Power, and in others. We believed in getting high. Now our program tells us to believe in love. We are lovable, and we can love others without hurting them. Of course, believing is an important part of recovery.

To believe means to put aside our doubts. To believe means to have hope. Believing makes the road a little smoother. So, believing lets the healing happen a little faster. All of this is how we get ready to let in the care of our Higher Power.

Prayer for the Day: I pray for the courage to believe. I'll not let doubt into my heart. I can recover. I can give myself totally to this simple program.

Action for the Day: I'll list four times doubt got in my way. And I'll think of what I can do to not let that happen again.

[caressa222]

When I see Step Two, I always think of my friend who said to me one morning at Freedom of Recovery, "It says it could restore us to sanity, doesn't say it would."

It took a while to see the insanity of my own addiction. I could see it in my dad, my son, and my ex-husband, but heaven forbid, not me.

It was a real relief when I learn to laugh at myself. When I came into the program, I knew who God was and I wasn't insane." How dare you suggest such a horrid thing. I got to a year clean and sober and I found out that I was totally insane and I didn't have a clue as to who my God was. I went on a spiritual quest, I had to make my God personal, not some distant being who I discovered to be an old tape. He had been other people's interpretation of who they said there God was. My God is as He reveals Himself to me in today.

[majestyjo]

When I came into recovery, it was "Stop the world, I want to get off." That changed, and even now I don't want to get off, I am just so tired, I don't want to fall off. I have to make a point of building up my energy and eat more of the good foods that are important to my health.

[caressa222]

I believe in miracles, I am one.