There are two important things we have to do if we want to get sober and stay sober. First, having admitted that we're helpless before alcohol, we have to turn our alcoholic problem over to God and trust Him to take care of it for us. This means asking Him every morning for the strength to stay sober that day and thanking Him every night. It means really leaving the problem in God's hands and not reaching out and taking the problem back to ourselves. Second, having given our drink problem to God, we must cooperate with Him by doing something about it ourselves. Am I doing these two things?
Meditation for the Day
I must prepare myself by doing each day what I can to develop spiritually and to help others to do so. God tests me and trains me and bends me to His will. If I am not properly trained, I cannot meet the test when it comes. I must want God's will for me above all else. I must not expect to have what I am not prepared for. This preparation consists of quiet communion with God every day and gradually gaining the strength I need.Prayer for the Day I pray that I may really try to do God's will in all my affairs. I pray that I may do all I can to help others find God's will for them.
>>>>>rosie>>>>for me this was the hardest thing...surrendering and DETACHING after i surrender....my trust issues w/god.....my "earthly god's" betrayed/ let me down SO badly, HOW was i to trust in this "god i cannot even see??".....i was comparing god to my perp and my "A" mother.....i feared god would let me down....let me drop off the cliff i so tenuously hung onto by my fingernails......i am practicing to REALLY give it up.....do the "leg work" and surrender the OUTcome to god.....admitting i am helpless over my "isms" and doing MY part, and giving the rest over......i am praying/ meditating more...morning AND nite.......when i put a problem in his hands, i am having to MAKE me not take the problem back to me..........i call it "showing up for duty----doing the 'grunt' work---leaving the outcome to god"...........
i do not believe that my hp "tests me" he already knows my heart....if i suffer a "lesson", it is becuz i fell out of tune with my hp, and need to work the steps and surrender it to my hp......i do my communion with my god and now i am WILLING to ask "thy will---not mine---be done"....its scary....i used to think god's will was the enemy..the disaser/ punishment/ deprivation, etc....i feared his/her/its will.....i know i must practice seeing hp as hp, not the earthly "protectors/providers" who so badly abused me........
