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...
the release of any of the handicaps which had held me steeped in my alcoholism started the day i didnt take that next 1st drink. though it was just a start toward sobriety, i didnt know then it would lead to a life of recovery. surrender was a great feelin i had to work hard...
with an understandin of what my HP means to me today, i believe, and can say, as i try to follow His will as i perceive it, the events in my life, as easy, or tough, as they may be, i get to use what recovery has taught me. by merely takin the few nanoseconds...
in my early recovery, at my sponsor and i’s 1st meetin, he asked me what my priorities in life were. of course, i said my well-bein, my family, and mentioned employment. he asked me, “where is God in all this?” i really didnt have much an answer for such a pointed question. he asked if...
when i honesty took a look, through inventory, with my sponsor as a guide, at the life i had lived while doin my dirt, i couldve easily said, “hey man, damn, was i ever lucky”! and to say there wasnt any luck involved in some of the outcomes wouldnt be story tellin, coz, maybe there...
back in the days of doin my dirt there was never a thought of freely givin, unless i was to receive somethin in return or workin some angle. and this was nothin that became known without doin what recovery teaches. to learn humility recovery required that i finally surrendered some of the self-willed desires i...