Daily Missives

Things always have a way of working themselves out. Instead of trying to affect outcomes to my liking, sometimes it’s better stand back and do nothing. Worry and impatience are a waste of energy. Time takes time. God always has the answers. It’s always best for me to wait for God.   God, please help…

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When I stopped drinking, the rest of the world didn’t slow down to accommodate me. I had to adjust everything about me – no one could do it for me. I am responsible for my recovery. There are no acceptable excuses. I cannot pin my failings on anyone else. This is serious. This is life…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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