i feel a personal responsibility to this program of recovery. this thing we do has afforded me the life i live today. i have opened my mind, became honest, and willin enough to live its spiritual principles, which in turn, has given me a relationship with a Higher Power and a host of friends within...
passin on a smile, a handshake, a hug, a kind word, or action, does not cost me a thing. even when i am feelin like hell inside, these simple outgoin behaviors help to change my emotion within. it is even sweeter when they are reciprocated. as i have gotten older in life and grown in...
what a glorious thing it has been to watch recovery work in the lives of others. it is one of the pleasures i have been blessed with witnessin as i have grown in my recovery. comin from some of the worst sorted places a person can come from physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally, people who...
the ambitions i have today are quite different from the ambitions i had before recovery. i really dont know if it is because of the paradigm shift in perception, growin older, or just because. i like to think that the life i live today is because i have made changes that brought about new circumstance....
lettin go of the shit that tends to cause me the most distress is an action that helps me to maintain my emotional balance. prayer and meditation allows for a lessenin of garbage i dont need to continuously mull over. givin it to my HP and humbly and patiently waitin for His answer through meditation...
as my recovery has progressed i have experienced a new way of thinkin. this new way of thinkin has only occurred after acceptance and behavior modification. i heard early in my recovery that i could NOT think my way into new behaviors, that i had to change my behavior to change my thinkin. after disciplined...
service is a principle that helps me to remember the reasons why i stay active in my program of recovery. it helps me to see people who are new to the program and reminds me of the state i was in when i walked through the doors for the first time. less i forget the...
recovery has taught me that i cannot keep it unless i give it away. but mere talk is only, mere talk. it is the action of givin it away that shows others my want to live and practice my recovery. this doesnt mean ONLY in meetins do i do this, it means that if i...
today i get to experience the benefits of my recovery. i can accept the things that happen in my life without the feelin of loss. i have the option of actively workin toward solutions that arent reactions that cause further harm to others or myself. i dont have to ignore them, givin myself the false...
they may have been suggested at one time if i wanted to experience a spiritual awakenin, but today, they are musts. this spiritual awakenin they speak of in this morns readin is possible. i didnt think it was when i first came into the rooms, i always wondered how anybody could be happy from the...