We Didn't Promise You a "Rose Garden"

[Tiger]

TEXT Today we hear allot about "Happy, Joyous and Free" but as life happens in sobriety, we all go through rough times.

This recalls a statement an old-timer told me many years ago. He said "AA dosen't promise you a rose garde but will teach you to live life on life's terms SOBER.

There will be times we are not happy, joyous but we will always be free if we *accept* life on life's terms SOBER!.........just for todayTEXT

Tiger

[mistyeve]

Dear Tiger----Yeah I know what ya mean. Sobriety has its good times and its bad times. Even roses have thorns!!! I love the acronym I heard for SOBER-SON OF BEACH EVERYTHINGS REAL!!!! The most difficult part of sobriety is to face reality. I do hang on to the advice I got in the early days of
"there is nothing so bad that a drink or drug won't make worse!!!" I found out the hard way that this is absolutely correct. Thanks for the reminder Tiger!!!! Love & Grateful Hugs----MISTYEVE

[Caressa2]

How true this is! Yet when you think of it, in order to get the roses and see them bloom, it takes a lot of work, turning over the soil, adding the fertilizer, pampering and care, love and attention, food and water, digging out the weeds and trimming the bush so the picture and plant is whole.

That is what recovery and the Twelve Steps have done for me. Now I have the priviledge of seeing some blossoms, but I know it takes continuous work, to keep the plant alive.