Author: Dennis W.

“Life on Life’s Terms”…

Sometimes life brings disappointments, failures, and tragedies. 

Being an alcoholic, my challenge is how to respond.

Do I go on a rage-filled bender and drink everything in the county? 

Do I lash out at everyone in sight? 

Do I destroy everything that I have worked towards?

When things are going well for me, I need to prepare my soul for what life deals to me.

When “the shit hits the fan”, I had better be close to God already.

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

At some point I had to stop kicking myself about the past, unload that burden, and start living the rest of my life.

I’m grateful that I don’t have to live the way I used to live.

Thank God for God.

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

My pain could not be seen or heard by anyone but me.

My healing happens in silence, in private, and at my own pace.

Just because I am getting better, I cannot assume the same for anyone else.

Everyone is doing the best they can while they quietly carry their own burdens. I need to be sensitive to that and maybe be a little more gentle with the world.

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

The solution to my problem is not only knowing what to do but doing what needs to be done.

When I stop doing what is necessary for me, I begin to move towards being the person I used to be.

“Constant vigilance” is required.

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

If I want things to change, I must do the work and then wait.

Patience feels like torture sometimes, but it helps me to appreciate the rewards a little more.

It all happens in God’s Time, not mine.

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

In desperate times I looked to God to save me. When He did, I sometimes resumed living my life as I had been.

If God had turned His back on me like I had sometimes turned my back on Him, where would I be?

God has a purpose for my life. That purpose is revealed to me as God sees fit.

Following God’s Will gets me closer to that Purpose.

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

Sure, the miracle in my life is that I put down the substances and changed the course of my life. No doubt about it, I was a “longshot”.

My journey has brought me countless challenges as well as Blessings.

What has become even more of a miracle is that I expect to live sober. 

It’s no longer a question of “if” I am living sober, but rather “how” I am living sober.

I seek God – one day at a time.

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

There is no “easy way out”.

If I had spent as much energy looking for the right way of living instead of the “easy way”, life would be a whole lot easier.

I think it comes down to making the right choices for the right reasons.

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

It is humbling to know that strangers were willing to spend their time and share their experiences with me in order to save me from my misery.

I guess it was more obvious that I needed help than I realized.

I had nothing to offer. I didn’t know them.

What’s more humbling is to know that without their compassion I probably wouldn’t be here.

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

The way I use God in my life is to let Him use me.

When I keep an open mind and allow God to guide me, I am best able to do what God wants me to do.

Every once in a while I will get a “Nod from God” which tells me that I’m going in the right direction.

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