It is hard for me to accept that I have been sober for 8 yrs, and am having to just keep reading page 449 in the big book. My van is in the shop and seems to be taking forever.
I will have to continue to wait. Financial pressure has my head working overtime. I believe I need to just get my van and get to my next job. The thing that is working is reading on acceptance and admitting to myself that there is truly not alot I can do to get the world to be the way I need it to be. Accepting is working for me right now!
This Forum is a good place. Someone said yesterday, in a Meeting, even after some time here, we know we are still different that others, not in AA - Food for thought, eh?
We are different because this Program has taught us to never rest on our Laurels, so to speak, always have to keep working on the Steps, and yes that infamous Page 449, Acceptance.
Glad you are here, and look forward to seeing you again, and again WELCOME!!!!
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation — some fact of my life — unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need
to concentrate not so much on what needs
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to be changed in the world as on what "needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes. . ;
hey,, I always thought that the difference between me others was that they already knew what I had to find in recovery. Some people actually are pretty healthy. but then,, I guess there are some real 'winners' out there too.
love in recovery,
amanda
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do your best and God does the rest, a step at a time
If we're sober and working the Steps, we're Winners.........If we're sober and not working the steps, we're Whiners......If we're drunk, and finding excuses to keep drinking, we're just plain pathetic...... Acceptance ~ Absolutely! The first thing I must accept EVERY SINGLE morning is the fact that I am an alcoholic and I am powerless over alcohol........Step One is the only Step I must do perfectly.......Step One is the only Step I must Accept 100% if I desire to stay sober........ and today, I desire sobriety very much.......
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
