"And 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 to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes."
BB pg. 449
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. No news from the courts as of yet, but I have felt a sense of "calm" the last two days and I know your prayers are being answered. I am where I need to be today and I accept whatever tomorrow may bring as part of the bigger plan.
Is invisibly stamped on my forehead, and so glad to see it working, especially at this moment in time for you. The Prayers are working, and you can feel them. So very Powerful. Stronger than any fear.
A hard one for me but working on it one day at a time.
Let go and let God ..
If I think about things very long, I end up making them so complex..I'm doing my best to keep things simple..I seem to have much more energy as of late ...wounder why???
I believe that is page 517 in the fourth edition, pg. 449 in the third. I know those pages well. ( sighs ) I don't always feel like accepting things. Imagine that !!! This has to be the best stuff in the BIG BOOK next to the first 149 which is necessary to read in order to recover. At least that's the way I see it. Acceptance is the answer today whether I like it or not. If I want to get rid of some of my character defects or deal with an ugly situation I must accept the way it is because God wants things this way. I think we all must have to trudge our way through sh*t at points in our life and this is part of the character building process. What I experience in life and how I deal with it makes me who I am. It's like my message of hope is based on experiences that I have personally gone through, not based strictly upon what I've read or heard about. Back to acceptance!!! I really love that chapter. I know it goes on to talk about expectations and how they effect one's serenity. This is some really powerfull stuff to combat my alcoholism. I have to accept the fact that I'm an alchy in order to start this healing process.
I used to wonder why God let bad things happen. Does God really want that? I was talking abaout it one day with someone and they told me that there are two kinds of will that God has.... one is His 'perfect will', which is what He really wants, and the second is His 'permissive will', which is not what He wants but what he allows because He is going to work it somehow for good. So I have free will, I can either try to do what God wants me to, or I can do my own thing. God wants me to do what is really best, which is His perfect will, but I often end up doing what I want, and He allows that. Or my parents do what they want, and God allows that, even tho it might hurt me, cuz He is going to work it out somehow for good. Before , I thought He wanted those bad things to punish me or something.
Well, I did come to believe that. Rom 8:28, "God works all things together for good, for those who love Him and are called to His purposes".
love in recovery,
amanda
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