Category: Daily Missives

Only a sober alcoholic knows how difficult it is to stop drinking and stay stopped.

Alcohol had become the single most important thing in my life, so much that I had put alcohol before everything.

It wasn’t just a “bad habit” – it was a way of living.

It was as much of a spiritual affliction as it was physical and mental addiction.

So, as much as I had to overcome the physical and mental addiction, I had to find and develop a spiritual solution.

Other alcoholics get it. God gets it.

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

Each person’s life is custom-designed by God. The course of my life is unique to me.

My experiences affect me only from the lens I view them. They are only important if I see them that way.

Every interaction I have with another person, however brief, may be significant to one of us. I need to be mindful that God may be using that moment to help one of us.

God, please help me to be a positive power of example to others.

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

Some people refuse to accept help. For whatever reason, they choose suffering over peace. I suppose that is their destiny.

I was not spared from misery to just clean up my life and then keep it to myself. I was led to a way of living which includes helping others.

I can only help those who want help. Some need to suffer a little more than others.

Each of us is in God’s Hands.

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

Pain is a great catalyst for change. It creates an urgency unlike anything else, but it is tougher to focus on change when I am in pain.

I need to continue to try to get better, to ask God to help me to get better especially when I’m not in pain.

Sooner or later life will bite me in the ass. If I’m not ready, the pain will cause me to suffer.

God, please help me to be willing to change as You see fit, and take away my defects.

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

I have made my share of mistakes in my life. Some of them were carelessness. Some of them were bad judgement. Some of them were just self-willed foolishness.

Every day I get a chance to correct my mistakes or make new ones. Every day is a second chance.

I can’t let my mistakes of the past keep me from living my life the way that I think I should.

I just need to be careful of whose guidance I follow. 

I trust God’s Guidance over any person’s. I can live with that.

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

No one understands an alcoholic like another alcoholic. We think differently than other people, especially our developed insanity.

When I connect and identify my common thoughts and feelings with another alcoholic, I know that I’m not alone and that there is hope for me.

My alcoholism never goes away.

That’s why I go to meetings. That’s why I keep showing up. That’s why I always ask God for help.

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

Pride and ego keep me from asking for help when I need it. If I ignore my need for help for too long, my decisions are not always the best.

When I ask God for help, I must truly be humble and accept the help in whatever form it comes to me.

I’m not a superhero. I’m just someone trying to live this day without screwing it up and maybe help someone else along the way.

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

When I’m looking for answers, usually they are right in front of me. However, my inclination to over-complicate things makes me look elsewhere.

The answers are often what I need rather than what I want.

Looking to God for Guidance always helps me to see what I need when I need to see it.

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

I’m one of those people whose natural state of being is not “ok”. 

Some people seem to see “ok” as something they settle for, because they always aspire to be “great”.

I aspire to be “ok” every day. Too high or too low are too dangerous for me.

I need to work at being ok. I need to remain mindful that I am my own biggest problem.

I need God because I can’t do this on my own.

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

It’s humbling to have destroyed my soul and then have it saved. Those who have been down that road know what I mean.

The way back was unknown to me, so I had to trust those who had made it back. I could not put conditions on it because my way had never worked.

God put people in my life to show me the way. For that, I am so grateful.

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