WEDNESDAY'S CHIP - FORGIVING/RESENTMENT

[caressa]

Well I do admit to being more resentful than forgiving and am grateful for the tools of the program that I have tools to deal with it. Prayer does work.

I am much more forgiving of myself than I use to be. That took a long time. Past guilt kept me from find peace with myself. Today my Higher Power and the Program have talk me to not take on what is not mine and it helps.

For many years, if you hurt a friend of mine you hurt me. The program tells me that it isn't mine and that I am as powerless over that situation as I am over someone choosing to use.

I am powerless over people, places and things. I tend to forget that the Steps are for all areas of my life. It is a living program. It isn't about my program to accept my son's addiction. It isn't about my program to keep my own addiction in recession. It is about living clean and sober and finding sobriety (peace of mind).

Resentments kill. Anger is a danger to me and others. Secrets and old behaviors and thoughts keep me sick.

I need to change in order to recover.

[SunnyGirl]

Excellent chip for me today... FORGIVING/RESENTMENT

Carrying resentments with me through the day, weigh me down
and hurt my soul. Resentments are like poison in my system,
they may not kill me all at once, but slowly over a period of time.
Sometimes I may try to justify my feeling of resentments, but
there is just no excuse for me. Forgiving others and letting go
of resentments is important for my recovery. Working thru
Step 4 allowed me to get rid of my resentments, but it's still
a work in progress. Going back to step 4 daily if necessary,
is for my spituality, my peace of mind, my recovery.

Today I will have a forgiving nature and I will release all my
resentments and make amends where I can....

Peace on the journey, SunnyGirl