Category: Daily Missives

Experience is the best teacher.

Sometimes those who screw-up the most become the smartest.

Sometimes those who learn from the smartest don’t have to screw-up as much.

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

By trusting God’s Plan for me, I don’t have to worry about how things will turn out.

So why do I sometimes see fit to try to take the wheel and force my will upon situations where I have no control?

Do I really think that God is steering in the wrong direction or do I just fear an outcome that doesn’t fit my desires?

God has carried me this far. He is not going to drop me now.

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

I used to be lost. If not for the Grace of God, I would still be out there.

Giving away what was freely given to me is the best way for me to show gratitude.

Perhaps my experience may benefit others.

I’m trying to pay it forward.

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

How I think affects how I treat others. Sometimes I notice it, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes my self-centeredness gets in the way.

In order for me to be at peace, I must surrender my opinions, my judgements, and my condemnations of others.

God, please help me to treat others today as You would have me treat them.

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

Over seventeen years drinking and using drugs.

One detox – 4 days.

One rehab – 3 weeks.

Got a sponsor. Got a home group. Put 12 Steps in my life.

One day at a time – don’t drink, don’t use, don’t die.

Trust God. Clean house. Help others.

Over 13 thousand consecutive days. Life on life’s terms. It still works.

Thank God for Alcoholics Anonymous.

Thank God for God.

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

Some people go through their lives always knowing what they want. Then they work to get it.

I start with knowing what I don’t want – to live my days suffering with drug or alcohol addiction until I die an ugly death.

I have to work at not getting that because it is the most important thing in my life.

Everything else that comes my way is the result of living sober.

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

It feels that the more I do, the more I am expected to do.

Sometimes I have to just slow down and “be” rather than “do”.

I’m not Superman. Never have been. Never will be.

Today I will try to find some balance.

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

My old ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving will lead me to relapse. 

I need to attend to my spiritual condition each day in order to stay on the right path.

I am never cured of my alcoholism.

Like it or not, my soul needs daily maintenance.

I must seek God daily.

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

After having spent many hours in church basements and parish halls, sitting on folding chairs, I have a pretty good idea what a miracle looks like.

I have witnessed many miracles and have been the beneficiary of a few myself.

I must have faith and leave the rest up to God.

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

When I was hopeless, God gave me a moment of clarity. I had to be desperate and willing to hear the message.

Some of us need to be in a state of suffering before we get the message.

For people like me, there is a better way to live. There is hope if we are willing.

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