Last night we finished "We Agnostics" at Home Group. Have you ever noticed how people are inclined to change the title of that chapter? Like to "The Agnostics" or "You Agnostics?" Like most everything else in this program, it is "WE." We who drank our spirits, while at the same time making our own spirit inside sick.
Zane had a quote from meditations from God yesterday that really spoke to me. How God communicates through feelings, very seldom in words. The one from today was really good too, I am going to have get that book! I have had it happen to me and it is wonderful. It always seems to happen when I least expect it. Usually when I am plodding along, and just doing what I am supposed to be doing and then WHAM! I will see what God has been trying to show me, and my heart gets filled with love and joy! So, now I sound like one of "those people" that we used to smile at when they spoke of God making things possible in their life. Guess what? I don't care! I am so grateful for that second step!
If you are having a problem grasping this program, if you just can't seem to "get it." Take a look at that second step, and surrender. Try it for one day. Admit that there indeed is an inhuman power in this universe that is greater, and wiser than you are. And that power can restore you to sanity. I am proof of that. I was a hopeless alcoholic. Now, I am an alcoholic full of hope, who has been restored to sanity, my sickness of my soul has been recovered. I no longer have the need to turn to alcohol or drugs to solve or forget all my problems. God is taking care of me, and He wants to take care of you too, He has been waiting patiently for a long time for you. If you show just a little bit of willingness, the proof will appear in your life. He will show you, when you start to look, just how He can work in your life, if you let Him.
Thanks for listening
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Fo an al-anon'er - surrendering for me was allowing the world around me to be as it was - to stop attempting to control everything and everyone...
I was able to let go (or surrender) and it freed up all the time necessary for me to address myself and learn more about my own program, needs and become stronger.
Last night my husband left for his meeting - he goes to 5 or six each week at night - and i used to feel resentful of the time he would be away... but now I find comfort in my own company because I know when he is around - things are always so much better because he is taking care of himself and I myself.
Thanks for the post, Patty. How I did step 2 is a little different...
First, I asked myself if I felt "sane". For me, the answer is no. Secondly, I asked myself if I believed working with other alcoholics in the program couldmake me more sane. I answer yes to this...next...
Hi darlin'. I'm just stopping by to say hi :)
Guess what..I'm one of those people too!
(I'm printing this out and sending it to my son. I try to plant a seed every single day.)
Well, no argument from me.
Simple willingness was certainly the key for me. I just had to make myself as miserable as possible before I could find any willingness. Once I did, amazing things have happened for me.
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