Language of Letting Go - June 2014
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As they say, "What needs to be changed with in me and my attitude." I try to be direct and say what I mean, according to my truth. It may not be the same as that of others, and that is okay, that is their truth. |
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My sponsor always said, "Check your motive and intent." |
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God says in the Bible, to give love, hope, and charity. The greatest thing is love. http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/13-13.htm The program is applicable to my home, to my community, to my job, as well as inside the rooms of recovery. |
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The program is applicable to all areas of my life. For years I thought I was just fine, I am not as bad as him or her and yet on close inspection, I was just as bad or worse. I had to learn that I am not my disease, and whether I am in my space as a recovering alcoholic, I am in the addiction of my childhood and young adult years. I found out in Al-Anon that often family of the A, is sicker than the alcoholic/addict. It is the thinking behind the disease. I can't change them, I don't have the power. I can change myself, I have the power, not me but my Higher Power, who I choose to call God. I found out that God was an old tape for me, I had to build a relationship and make it personal. God doesn't make any junk. A phrase that has stayed with me for many 24 hours. |
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I came to the fellowship(s) and found people doing what I had been trying to do my way for 8 years. They carried a message to me. The program works if I am willing to work for it. Through them I learned to trust the program, and through the program, I learned to trust the God of my understanding. |
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I did not get into a relationship until I was 7 years sober. Then I learned to identify not compare. |
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Don't put your life on hold for someone else, live your own life and enjoy it. |
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/panic |
Panic Attacks and Panic Disorders. A lot can be handled through our God and the program. I prefer it to taking a pill. Sometimes depending on the person, that is what is needed.
The 12 Step Program is applicable to all areas of my life. http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/g...panic-disorder |
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I am powerless over alcohol, along with peopole, places and things, and my life is unmanageable when managed by me, my life is unmanageable when I try to manage other people's lives and try them into the way I would have them go. My live is unmanageable, and I don't grow, if I am focusing on others and not focused on my own recovery. It all begins with me. |
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I can just be in the now and things will unfold very well without me. |
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I have had pain all of my life, but I can not let it rule my life. With Home Care coming into my life, I am hoping to get some solutions that will benefit me and lessen my day to day struggles. |
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Had a much healthier snack tonight, had a carrot bran muffin. |
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As it says in recovery literature, "Surrender to win." Surrender isn't to give up, it means giving up to our Higher Power, the God of our own understanding. When I surrender, I am empowered to do what I need to do to live today, clean and sober. I need to surrender my life daily to my God, and ask for His Good Orderly Direction. As I open myself to healing, open my mind to new ways of living and thinking (it was my thoughts that were my dis-ease), so I can be open to changing what was, to what it can be in today. When I put my life into the Care of my God, in Step Three, often as simple as saying the Serenity Prayer, my God goes through the day with me. He does not grab me by the scruff of the neck and say, ¨Do not go there!¨ He gives me the thoughts, strength, courage, awareness, and works through others, people, places and things. As my sponsor said, ¨You can learn two things in recovery, how to work your program and how not to work your program.¨ There is no race to be won, no time limit, all we have is today. |
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As a friend once shared at a meeting: Intimacy - Into Me See! I was sure you wouldn`t like me because I didn`t love or like myself. |
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When I get overwhelmed and things seem difficult, I have to take an inventory of what I what I had been doing or not doing. With my God, all things are possible. Did I forget Him? |
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This is a link to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous written to family and friends of Alcoholics.
http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_122.htm There are also links to other chapters from the first 164 pages of the Big Book. If you haven't read it, it may give you some understanding of the alcoholic in your life. |
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I had stuffed feelings for many years. It took a long time for some of them to surface. They had been long forgotten, along with the pain that was often rooted in my childhood, and had compounded interest added to them. They had grown so big, it was hard to get to recognize them. |
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I love my son, but I don`t like his actions and his choices. |
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The way I see harmony is you have to be willing to receive if you are willing to give. If you take, you have to be willing to let go. Harmony is that place where you don`t have to think about it, it just is and you will know when you are there. As the reading says, like patience, it needs practice, practice, practice. |
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To know God's Will, we have to ask for it. |
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Once heard that a stone didn't have legs or an ability to move them, that is why they need people to pick them up and put them where they needed to be. Acceptance of what is, even if we don't like it, knowing that every things is subject to change. Hopefully we will get to where we need to be. |
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