i reckon over the years ive shared my story verbally many times. ive said shit ive lived through in recovery and how i reacted to em usin what recovery teaches. no matter what ive ever said, the proof of the results has been shown through action and behavior. words said can have a lastin effect...
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idk if Gods grace would still be with me if i stopped believin, but i do know if i stop believin, losin the faith in the relationship i have with my HP, my ability to give would disappear. a personal goal is to live with peace of mind so i may remain victorious and happy...
in the days of doin my dirt i was always lookin for a free means which didnt require any work on my behalf to get. bein blocked by ego and false pride, i wouldnt, nor couldnt, think this was the case, before i had done my 4th step moral inventory. and comin into recovery i...
ive felt that proud assumption of bein destined a channel of savin grace for everybody. what ive learned from that experience is that i only set expectations of self which set me up for failure, i.e., ego and false pride. this doesnt mean i cannot live in such a manner that i live, what i...
today, givin freely of what ive been gifted, is an act and emotion of love for another learned through recovery. it is a show of the unconditional love my HP has for me. understandin the gifts of kindness and love others passed onto me when i 1st came into the rooms, i get to be...
when it came time in my early recovery to learn tradition 7, my sponsor took me through it and explained how i could use it in my personal life; just as he had done with the prior 6 traditions. i recall him askin me what the worth of my sobriety was. he proceeded in expressin...
if i dont work toward practicin givin this thing we do away, i will lose it. and to be honest with ya’ll, i aint forgot what it was like back in the days of doin my dirt. i dont want to feel emotions as deep and frustratin as those days again; unless they are given...
when i practice the concept of humility, havin freed my psychological and emotional states of mind from self-centeredness, desirin to keep close to the mind of God, behavin with Him in my heart and mind, i have free time to exercise the concept of service, the 3rd legacy of recovery. it is an opportunity to...
lettin go, especially the shit which i had used to self-centeredly protect myself from the perceived harms of the outside world, these secrets i was usin which i shouldnt have been usin, meant i had to have a faith and trust in the relationship i had built with my HP. when i first came to...
in an effort to live beyond the life my alcoholism had created durin the days of doin my dirt, givin away and lettin go of the personality traits which had developed as a result of my alcoholism, was a rather chillin proposition. these characters had kept me safe. they were mannerisms which had allowed me...