Sunday's Chip - Purposeful/Aimless

[caressa]

Haven't been up in one sense to find the purpose of the day and yet when I look at it, I have been awake for almost five hours.

My purpose was to have the dinner I missed and now it is to do what I do every day, be here at EoR to start my day.

I do admit to sometimes wanting to put some things off like the chip of the day for Sunnygirl or Linda to do. Some times, I haven't been up long enough to figure out which ones are manifesting themselves in the day. Other times I choose ones that I would like to work on in today, without 'having' to work on them.

When I see the word purpose, I think of the Fifth Tradition. It applies not only to my home group, which is what I consider EoR to be, it applies to my daily life.

It is my purpose to put a message on the board for those who come by to visit. To share my ESH, so hopefully, they will keep coming back and choose the recovery road too.

They may not walk the same road as I do, but hopefully will find one that works for them. Because, I qualify to walk on many paths, my life can seem aimless at times yet my goal and destiny is the same as that of others -peace, serenity and sobriety (soundness of mind).

[SunnyGirl]

Purposeful/Aimless

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only
by lack of meaning and purpose." - - Viktor Frankl

As a child, I had few goals other than getting married and
having children. Needless to say, my goals were family
related, my purpose in life was to be a good wife and mother.
Prior to recovery, my whole life centered around the family,
with little time for me to set goals for myself.

12-step recovery has given me an aim and goal for my life. I
want to be the best person I can be and be a good example
to those around me. Mikef1 posted in the Naranon section,
about "recovery at home".... We can "talk the talk" in the
recovery rooms and with our recovery friends, but if we aren't
living by the 12-steps in our homes, it just doesn't work.

I have a family at home and I have a recovery family here
at EOR. My goal is to reach out in prayer and work hard to
share what has worked for me in my recovery journey. If
something I say or write here encourages someone else to
begin the journey to recovery, it would make my heart very
happy indeed!

Peace on the journey, SunnyGirl

[majestyjo]

SG brought up a good point. The program needs to be practiced at home. Not only in my home, but with my family and friends. I also have to take my program into the community and the work place.

I do volunteer work within the community (Hamilton Housing Internet Cafe and Tenant Committee) and volunteer at the jail, detox, treatment centers, and share my story at groups inside and outside of the city. I have been GSR and Intergroup Rep, and as someone recently shared, and I posted, it is a program of suggestions and you have to find what works for you.

A guy in the program took me out for coffee one time and asked, "Do you talk recovery all the time." I said, "It is my life, I wouldn't be alive without it." I use to play bridge, thanks to this program. I am thinking of going back to it. The medication for my arthritis, neuropathy and heart, didn't give me the clearest of mine that I needed to play bridge to be a good partner. I have had to change medications many times over beause I refuse to take something that makes me feel stoned, when I have over 20 years of sobriety. An intern once said to me, "Lady you couldn't get stoned if you wanted to, you are in too much pain." I found that if I felt stoned, the medication wasn't right for me or I was being given too much of it. There is no way that we shouldn't be able to get up in the morning, live our day, and have something to be grateful for at the end of the night.

[bunnypie]

There was a older man at one of my meetings who use to say when he was drunk he would wake up and say "Good God It's Morning" now in sobriety he wakes up and says "Good Morning God"-----Bunnypie