my sponsor shared with me the same as this mornins readin suggests, why dont ya choose your own conception of God. when he told me this i didnt know how to respond. as he told me his story and how he had done the same as his sponsor suggested, it made sense to me. i...
sittin in the rooms today i get to witness the work others have put into their personal programs of recovery. i get to be witness to the extraordinary miracles that this thing we do brings to those whove surrendered to the fatal obsessions theyve carried. this brings me hope that if i continue to do...
when i began to use the priority list my sponsor suggested i didnt know if it would work. i didnt know if i could live by such, misunderstood, religious standards. even as my sponsor had explained to me that the program wasnt a religious one, but a spiritual one, i still had misconceptions about it....
as my recovery grows and evolves, so does my spiritual understandin and effectiveness. this helps me to mature in the areas i had recessed as the days of doin my dirt progressed and flourished my alcoholism. emotionally, psychologically, behaviorally, and spiritually, i had unwittingly languished the growth i should have experienced in each area. buildin...
shortly after i began workin with my sponsor, after he had gone over what made him an alcoholic through the book, we turned to the pages in the big book that discuss the topics of beginnin and endin my day. even as it was well before i had started the 4th step, he discussed with...
the obstacles of unreasonable demands kept me from receivin the feelins of wholesome goodness from my HP for a very long time while i was out doin my dirt. and still can when i go to lettin go and lettin joel. i can recall in my early recovery how the struggle with tryin to accept...
listenin to others tell the story of their experience, their strength, and then hope, i was able to hear how others had been through similar situations as i had been, but most emphatically how their story made them feel prior to comin into the rooms. surely the things i heard of the circumstances that surrounded...
in surrenderin my self-will, it took me time. i had to build trust within, not only in an entity i couldnt see or touch, but in the people i was interactin with in my newfound circle of recovery. and to start all this trust, in my early sobriety, i had to build trust with myself....
when i came into the rooms i didnt know how i could turn it all over after i had always seemingly done it all myself before. boy, had i ever set myself up for a lesson in humility. i mean, wasnt it true that i had come into the rooms because i didnt have anyplace...
today, i think on my program of recovery and am amazed at how each principle is spread throughout each step, yet i cant move forward with another step until the current step is possessed with any amount of understandin. the miracle of step 6 happened long before i ever approached it. just like it took...