Author: Dennis W.

When I stopped abusing substances, after a while I started to feel better physically and my mind began to clear.

That was the good part.

Then all of the feelings and thoughts that drove me to drink or use in the first place started to take over.

That was the bad part.

I could no longer numb the feelings or block-out the thoughts.

I needed to learn how to live without substances to change the way I think and feel.

As painful as that part was, it gets easier over time with the right guidance. But it does take time.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I find that being kind to others is easier than being harsh or indifferent.

It creates less tension, anxiety, and stress in me.

It also makes it easier to make new friends.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I am an alcoholic, but I don’t have a drinking problem. I can get one pretty fast if I start again.

My problem is a thinking problem.

If I forget what it was like and do not try to maintain my spiritual condition daily, I will eventually think that somehow I have been cured.

I am not cured. Never will be.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

If I ask for help and get direction from someone who has been successful, but don’t follow the direction, how can I say their direction doesn’t work?

If my old ways just make things worse, perhaps I should discard my old ways.

It is possible for me to change. It starts with me being willing.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

If I want to free myself from the burden of self-centeredness, all I need to do is watch those who are not so self-centered and do what they do.

Asking God for help in that area might help a little.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I just returned home after a beautiful week-long vacation with my family.

I am so grateful to have a family, let alone one that would want to spend the week away with me.

I could never have foreseen the life that I am living. 

I am so Blessed. Thank You God.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

“Don’t do anything today that will make tomorrow tougher.”

I used to wake up most days trying to piece together what I had done yesterday. Regret was a constant theme, so drinking again today helped me to forget yesterday.

Of course, every day was the same pattern.

Living with regret is a heavy burden for anyone. For people like me, we drink over that kind of thing.

“God-consciousness” helps me to choose to live today the right way.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I often think back to the time when I felt like I was a hopeless, “lost cause”.

I was hopeless, fearful, and the thing in which I sought comfort had betrayed me.

A seed of hope started to turn things around for me – one day at a time.

I couldn’t see it then, but I see it now. The seed grew into a life worth living.

It was God’s Grace all along.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

“So I got sober. What do I have to show for it?”

If I had stopped drinking to appease someone else, I probably could not have stayed “stopped”. It’s not for show.

As it turns out, no one can see the changes inside of me. 

As I continue to seek God to fill the “hole in my soul”, the way I treat others reflects how I feel about myself.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I never know where I might find an angel. I also don’t know what it might look like.

I do know what it feels like when I hear God speak through an angel, because it touches my soul through all of the other noise.

When I’m hurting the most is when I need to listen the most.

That’s when God is trying to reach me.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.