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October 14, 2025
I used to wake up every day with a feeling of “impending doom” – that the day was somehow going to be horrible. It was mostly the sense that I would not be able to handle what would come my way. I didn’t even know what I feared. It was just the absence of peace.
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October 13, 2025
I have been given the opportunity to turn my life around and live a new life. I did not see it when it began. I got better every day and started to follow a different path. I want to live this way. I don’t want my old way of living to return. Every day I
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October 12, 2025
It’s always good for me to stop and appreciate what others have done for me, and what God has done for me. For people like me, the turnaround in our lives is improbable. We have received so much more than we ever deserved. Living the right way has its rewards but I had to be
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October 11, 2025
If I try to get better each day, there is a chance … … that I can live without my fears directing my thoughts and actions… … that I will never consider giving up … … that I can pay attention to the little things in my life … … that I can be gentle
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October 10, 2025
Here are some inescapable truths about myself… I am powerless over alcohol and my life had become unmanageable. My powerlessness and unmanageability begin with my thoughts… progress into patterns of feelings… which turn into actions to soothe the feelings. Alcohol took away those feelings until it stopped working. No amount of alcohol could relieve my
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October 9, 2025
I see the change in others more easily than I see the change in my self. It seems that I don’t notice the change in myself because it manifests gradually. What I do see in others is the result of God’s Grace. If I look closely enough, I see God within them. What I see
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October 8, 2025
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
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October 7, 2025
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
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October 6, 2025
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
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October 5, 2025
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
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