I did not notice the change in myself until after it happened.
While I was going through it, I was frustrated and impatient.
I kept showing up. I kept praying. I didn’t give up. I did the work.
One day I realized that the desire to drink was gone, the thoughts of suicide were gone, and I wanted to live sober.
I am only here by the Grace of God.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
Alcohol used to make me feel at ease, until it stopped working.
When I stopped drinking, I was afraid that nothing could do for me what alcohol did.
It took time, but a regular daily practice of connecting with God fills that void.
The God-sized hole in my soul was the problem all along.
Now I know.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
The choices I make each day determine my happiness.
If I look for the negative in everything, it feeds upon itself and then everything seems negative.
If I look for the gift or the lesson in everything, my days seem to be ok.
I don’t enjoy pain, but any of my misery is because of my attitude.
My life is my life. I can either be happy or miserable. It’s my choice.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
Nobody likes to be judged, myself included. No one knows exactly what it’s like to “walk in my shoes”.
It’s not fair for me to judge others. I really don’t know what another person experiences nor the lens through which they view them.
I know what I’m feeling although I don’t always know why.
So, if I find myself starting to judge another, perhaps I should look at myself.
Asking God to help me treat others as He would have me treat them is a good start.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
“You are not alone.”
I used to think that I was “terminally unique”, that no one else experienced that internal torture that I felt. That was until I found people who suffered from the same affliction.
Our common problem brings us together. Our common solution keeps us together.
I will be ok if I allow it – one day at a time.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
Happy New Year.
For many of us it’s a fresh start, to engage in new resolutions, to look ahead with Hope.
Every day, someone comes into their very first AA meeting and plants their ass in a seat in the back of the room. They hope to be unseen because that’s how they feel.
They know they are desperate.
They don’t have any options left.
They don’t know what to expect.
They are hoping for a miracle to end their suffering.
Those of us who have been there know what it’s like.
God lives in that room and wants a hand to be extended to begin the journey to save that person’s life.
My resolution this year is to be that hand, and be what God wants me to be each day.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
New Year’s Eve. Closing-out the year.
In the past year, a lot of things changed around me.
I made many new friends. They enrich my soul.
I lost a few people. They remain in my memory.
I helped a few people. I was helped by many.
I tried to live one day at a time.
I witnessed many miracles.
I got further from the man I used to be.
I got closer to My Creator.
It was a good year.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
I don’t really know how my life will turn out. I don’t really know what lies ahead.
I do know where I have been, the choices I have made, and how I got here.
I see glimpses of why I am here. I could never have predicted how beautiful my life would become. I could never have predicted the effect that others would have on my life.
I am in awe of the Power of God in my life. I am in awe of the Power of God in the lives of others.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
I can lie to myself all I want, but I still have to look at myself in the mirror.
Denial of the truth is poisonous to my soul. There will always come the day when I see how flawed I am.
Acceptance of the truth, opens the door to God’s Forgiveness.
The sooner I get onto the right path, the sooner I can cleanse my soul and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of the world.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
Perhaps God allows us to stray from Him so that we learn the pain of trying to live without Him.
God never leaves us.
When we experience enough self-inflicted pain, we almost always turn to God.
Sometimes we ask God why we are being punished. Sometimes we ask God to save us.
Do we ever ask God why He saved us when He does, or do we just assume that’s how life should be?
God wants us to seek Him always. Unfortunately we only change at the “speed of pain”.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.