Sharing and Caring

[MajestyJo]

The Al-Anon program will work for anyone who approaches it with an open mind. We cannot expect miracles overnight; it took years to create the situation in which we find ourselves today.

I will keep myself receptive and listen. I will not be quick to judge and say: "Yes, but my case is so different." The details may differ, but basically my story is the same as that of all those who live with the problem of alcoholism.

I must cling to this one thought: Al-Anon can change my life-if I give it a chance.

Today's Reminder
If I take to myself each day even one small new idea, heard at a meeting or read in Al-Anon literature, I will make progress. Things may not work out as I want them to, but as my point of view changes, what I thought I wanted changes, too. My ultimate contentment does not depend on having things work out my way.

"We may think we can change the things around us according to our desires, but when a solution does come, we find it was our desires that had changed."

One Day At A Time

This reminds me that I didn't get this way overnight and that recovery is not a quick fix, it is an ongoing process.

The person that came into recovery is no more, the person who was, before recovery is no more, the person who is today, hopefully will progress to someone who is no more and goes on to be a new 'light' being, a Child of God, walking in His Light.

This was posted in 2005, and here it is 9 years later. and God and I are still keeping company. The thought of parting ways with Him is scary, it is Him who has brought me along this recovery road for the last 23 years. Many change, and many changes that were change, were changed again. Things that were good, no longer served me in today. Each day praying for guidance, direction, clarity, knowing, my truth, as my good would have me see it, awareness, acceptance, patience, etc. the list at times seems endless.

Steps 10, 11, and 12 are the maintenance Steps of our Sobriety.