Daily Missives

If I ask for help and get direction from someone who has been successful, but don’t follow the direction, how can I say their direction doesn’t work? If my old ways just make things worse, perhaps I should discard my old ways. It is possible for me to change. It starts with me being willing.…

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If I want to free myself from the burden of self-centeredness, all I need to do is watch those who are not so self-centered and do what they do. Asking God for help in that area might help a little.   God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

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I just returned home after a beautiful week-long vacation with my family. I am so grateful to have a family, let alone one that would want to spend the week away with me. I could never have foreseen the life that I am living.  I am so Blessed. Thank You God.   God, please help…

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“Don’t do anything today that will make tomorrow tougher.” I used to wake up most days trying to piece together what I had done yesterday. Regret was a constant theme, so drinking again today helped me to forget yesterday. Of course, every day was the same pattern. Living with regret is a heavy burden for…

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I often think back to the time when I felt like I was a hopeless, “lost cause”. I was hopeless, fearful, and the thing in which I sought comfort had betrayed me. A seed of hope started to turn things around for me – one day at a time. I couldn’t see it then, but…

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“So I got sober. What do I have to show for it?” If I had stopped drinking to appease someone else, I probably could not have stayed “stopped”. It’s not for show. As it turns out, no one can see the changes inside of me.  As I continue to seek God to fill the “hole…

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I never know where I might find an angel. I also don’t know what it might look like. I do know what it feels like when I hear God speak through an angel, because it touches my soul through all of the other noise. When I’m hurting the most is when I need to listen…

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“We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness”. I am no longer a slave to substances to give me a false, temporary sense of being happy. I am finally comfortable in my own skin. What I had once thought was impossible is very real. That alone is worth the price of…

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If I’m worried about something, I ought to just take care of it. If I can’t take care of it, I ought to forget it and leave it up to God. God doesn’t worry.   God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

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When I took away the substances I had used to make me feel “ok”, I felt like it left a huge void in me. The void was already there and getting larger. I asked “What’s going to happen to me?” I was told “Trust God – one day at a time”. “Yeah but …”. ……

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