in my universal search for sobriety, i moved through every avenue i could grasp, medical doctors, therapists, and the religion of my youth, yet none of them could break through the dense armor of my self-will. only with a matured Spiritual Awareness can i now perceive how thoroughly my alcoholism obstructed the very instruments my...
Who Answers?
this mornins daily functions as an exactin reminder that my Spiritual Awareness is neither ornamental nor optional but the very condition upon which my inner equilibrium depends, for it directs me back toward a reliance on my HP that transcends the oscillations of fear, doubt, or emotional disarray. i am called to believe more deeply,...
through sustained Spiritual Awareness, i have come to apprehend with increasin clarity that each time i intrude upon the unfoldin that my HP has already set in motion, i have the potential to relapse into those two sins this mornins daily refers to: the insistence that i alone should govern outcomes for anothers doins, and...
as my Spiritual Awareness deepens, i see with increasin clarity that the paradoxes of recovery demand a disciplined interior honesty, for they expose the residues of self-will that still attempt to govern my responses to life. a classic prayer like The Prayer of St. Francis has become an anchorin influence, because its essence confronts my...
on a day like today, my birthday, i become acutely aware of how subtly my instinct for self-absorption still asserts itself, as though the mere fact of survivin another year entitles me to retreat into the small orbit of my own preferences. yet the deeper truth, affirmed through hard-won Spiritual Awareness, is that each day...
whenever i allow the thought that i am too busy to engage the disciplines that formed the bedrock of my early sobriety, i witness with disquietin clarity how swiftly my Spiritual Awareness begins to erode, initiatin that inward slide i recognize before its too late, how its affectin my recovery. the moment i permit myself...
i have learned that genuine Spiritual Awareness demands a rigorous and unflinchin honesty about the stubbornness and self-will that still rise within me and press hard against my better judgment, for when i surrender to those impulses, i inevitably disconnect from the subtle steadiness and quiet direction my HP offers. whenever i sense that familiar...
overcomin loneliness has required a deep Spiritual Awareness that forced me to confront the internal estrangement that shaped me long before alcohol ever entered my life, for the ache of not belongin was born in my earliest years. durin the days of doin my dirt, i lived the near-universal condition of alcoholics, tortured by a...
today i recognize with uncompromisin clarity that my Spiritual Awareness is inextricably bound to the conscious and deliberate contact i cultivate with my HP, for whenever i drift from the disciplines of prayer and meditation, i enact a subtle yet devastatin deprivation of the vital sustenance that stabilizes my intellect, steadies my emotional landscape, and...
askin my HP for inspiration or intuitive thought becomes a practice of Spiritual Awareness for me, a quiet surrender to my HP who speaks most clearly when i step aside and let humility govern my inner life. in that stillness, Intuition and Inspiration rise, not as flashes of personal brilliance but as gentle directives shaped...