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I remembered telling someone that I had been watching them trying, but what I had seen in reality was someone going through the motions. I wanted to trust this person, and I want to get along with her, but in hindsight (which is a good teacher), all she was doing was using me. There was no motivation behind the motion. No real honest desire to change, it was about everyone else accommodating her. When they say, it takes one to know one, it sure is true. What makes me grateful is the fact that I don't act out like that anymore. I am grateful that I can trust my instincts and realize what I was hearing wasn't the truth. There were just too many things that didn't match up with the lies I had heard before. So many times we hear what we want to hear, and although I use to think it wasn't good to read between the lines but it is sometimes a good thing to be aware. Again, it is being in touch with your Higher Self and trusting your Inner Knowing. Only through finding recovery and working and applying the 12 Steps to my life was I able to trust my God, and then and only then, truly trust myself. I thought I was in control, and I was the great I am; yet we all know that control is an illusion. Without my God, I don't have the power to control anything. When I surrender, follow the program, I am enable to do what I need to do for myself in today to stay clean and sober. I learned to trust the program. There were many people working their program, that I also learned to trust. ![]()
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