it took me time early in my recovery to gain the emotional serenity this mornins readin suggests. and just as it took time for that to happen, the sufferin i went through before my recovery began and sufferin i still may go through today was, and is, a trigger that lets me know that i must continue to live and practice what i have learned through recovery to overcome my character flaws and shortcomins. today i find that when i experience emotional turmoil or pain it is typically due to my human need to take control over situations in which i have no business messin with. when i am filled with doubt i must turn to the solutions recovery has taught me and use the wisdom ive gained to let go and let God. keepin a constructive attitude, rather than one of destructive, i get to seek out and pick through experiences that have helped me solve like problems in the past. and if there are none, it offers me an opportunity to do a necessary prunin so that i may grow emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually; not always are the answers as clear as i would like them to be. these are the times i must rely upon my HP to guide me toward strength, peace, and calmness. while in this communion i get to find His meanin and purposeful answers to direct me forward. it has been my experience that while partakin in a necessary prunin that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how i react to it. by not overreactin or tryin to overthink my problems when they occur, i take time to rest, feel my emotions, and then develop a sensible plan to weather the current storm. its how i master them with my HPs grace that i develop a healthy balance in my life. i owe this honesty and humility to myself, those i have relationships with, and my HP. in sharin these times with others, as my imagination is fired, i learn how to live with release from care, boredom, and worry. it is those within the fellowship with whom i share my difficulties i get to learn of ways others may have solved similar problems. there is so much i get from maintainin my recovery, and this mornins readins surely help me to reflect on just how far ive come and how blessed i am to have found a solution in this thing we do to overcome self. 1 day @ a time...
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corn fed not inbred michigan white trash...