i cannot say that i unintentionally deprived myself of Gods help back when i was out doin my dirt. i can say i intentionally did. i was raised in a baptist home and i knew what religion was, i chose to turn my back on it and head out to find my own way. i...
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recovery from my alcoholism has taught me that i should be grateful for all the blessins ive received and which i do not deserve. gratitude to God for all His blessins will make me humble. when i remember that i could do little by myself, and now must rely largely on Gods grace in helpin...
when i was out doin my dirt i thought i had everythin under control. i didnt feel like i suffered too much because, “i got this”. and sometimes i did do everythin just right. that always gave me the confidence i needed to try again. i learned in my recovery, through many personal inventories, that...
Chapter Five: Relationships We don't all come into NA alone. Many of us come into recovery with partners, children, parents, and others we are close too. But many of these relationships have been damaged by our disease. As we recognize that we can't fix it all at once, it can be tempting to just walk...
It's funny how the mind works…how one second by seeing a knife, i can think of death, and then the next moment, i am scrubbing my face, so I can take better care of my skin. So bizare…to be in between these 2 extremes, which seem so perfectly normal and right. For a while now,...
my alcoholic pain was the price of admission into a new way of life, a life in recovery. as bad as it got, as many times as i tried, i could not beat my alcoholism. it showed me that i, as bad ass as i thought i was, wasnt shit. i can look back today...
i dont get beat up near as much today as i used to. and i dont mean in the physical sense. what im talkin about is the emotional or psychological sense. i still do shit i wish id thought a lil more on, but the consequences i face from doin or sayin somethin aint nowhere...
ive battled despair and i aint too fond of doin it, hopelessness sucks ass man! and its so true, in my case, that when i go to relyin on self, without the help of my HP or a guided direction from a trusted friend in recovery, the signal i think i have with my HP...
i would not be sober today if i hadnt humbled myself and put forth the willingness to try to gain a sense of humility. recovery helped me get a start learnin how to use humility to help me become the person i am today. with step one i had to start bein honest with others...
its been my experience that as i have grown in my recovery, practicin, as best as i can, the spiritual principles contained within the program, humility has come as a biproduct of that discipline. surely bein a member in the fellowship i want to be humble and accept what my HP and the program has...