Feeling good about others’ accomplishments can motivate each of us. Seeing other women strive and succeed or strive, fail, and strive again, undefeated, creates an energy flow that can spur us on, if we choose. All things become possible when we understand we are not alone. Knowing our assets and accepting them provides the confidence we need to attempt a project, to strive for a goal.Īnother plus of this recovery program is the help available from our groups and our higher power. Halting our addiction doesn’t solve all our problems, but it does allow us to realistically take stock of our assets. Those of us in this recovery program may still fear failure. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.įear of failure plagues many women, not just those who get into trouble with drugs, alcohol, food. Women must try to do things as men have tried. I pray that I’ll keep no secrets that could put my sobriety at risk.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll read the first three pages of “How It Works” in the Big Book. Prayer for the Day: I pray that I’ll let go totally. What comfort we’ll feel as we deeper into our program. Just as denial is what makes addiction work, honesty is what makes recovery work. It is! This is why the authors of the Big Book ask us to be totally honest from the start. Maybe we still aren’t sure that being honest is best for us. Often, we don’t see what power honestly has. We crossed over from dishonesty to honesty. We started recovering the minute we admitted we were powerless over our illness. The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves.” “Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. We had to do exactly the same thing with our lives. If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values. One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them promptly and without regret. It is an effort to discover the truth about the stock in trade. Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. We started upon a personal inventory, Step Four. I pray that I may be given strength to face both life and death fearlessly. I pray that I may face the future with courage. I believe that when that time comes, I will be freed of all the dross of material things and find peace. I believe that I will pass through that Red Sea to the promised land, the land of the spirit where many souls meet in perfect comradeship. I am sure that when I come to that Red Sea, the waters will part and I will be given all the power I need to face and overcome many difficulties and meet what is in store for me with courage. I would do well not to think of the Red Sea of difficulties that lies ahead. Am I allowing myself to be upset over little things? When you allow yourself to be upset over one thing, you succeed only in opening the door to the coming of hundreds of other upsetting things. group, and they will readily tell you that since they turned their lives over to the care of God as they understand Him, many of their problems have been banished into the forgotten yesterdays. If you have any doubt, just ask any of the older members of the A.A. I do not have to fight anybody or anything anymore. When I began to let go and let God take over my life I began to have peace of mind. I ended up getting drunk and crying over my misery. At one time life was a constant battle because I felt I had to go through each day fighting myself, and everyone else. I am learning to practice acceptance in all circumstances of my life, so that I may enjoy peace of mind. I would have to be still and know that He, not I, was God. This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power–that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same admission with respect to much else.
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