Humility and Gratitude.
God is doing for me what I could not do for myself. So, each day I humbly ask Him to do it again today – on my knees.
At the end of each day I thank Him for carrying my ass today – on my knees.
It keeps working so I’ll keep doing it.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
Today might be the day that changes everything.
It is a gift. I don’t know what’s inside until I open it.
That’s why I never give up hope.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
I don’t always hear what I want to hear. Sometimes I’m not listening well. Sometimes I’m just closed-minded.
So, if I’m looking for answers, perhaps they are offered right in front of me and I need to listen.
Maybe I should be open-minded enough to see that the answers I get are what I need.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
I don’t see the changes in me while they’re going on. It’s usually down the road when I handle myself differently in situations where I used to fail.
I need to keep working on myself. I need to be patient with my own progress.
I need to trust that God is working in me.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
What’s really the point of my recovery from alcoholism?
I think it is to direct my life’s journey, without interference by substances, to find inner peace so that I can see God.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
God never gives me more than I can handle in a day, although it seems that some days He thinks I can handle a lot.
When I find times of quiet, that is when I need to re-center my soul and spirit.
By doing that, I can better prepare myself for whatever comes next.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
If I had “thrown in the towel” and given up at 31 years old when I thought my life was worthless, that there was no point in trying to get sober…
If I had convinced myself that life was too hard for me…
I would never have experienced the Blessings I have received and the relationships with others in my life.
I got married sober. I became a father to three beautiful children sober.
Yesterday, I became a grandfather to a beautiful boy named Elliott Jacob.
He is God’s Glory on display in my life.
Thank You God.
God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.
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.