12/6/2023 0 Comments Aa daily reflections april 2ndI’ve been recovering now for years, and it has taken me almost as many years to gain the proper perspective on my past. I guess I was scared to let it go, afraid of today, afraid of tomorrow. Sometimes, I’d try to absolutely forget about my past, but I never really stopped and sorted through it my past was like a dark cloud that followed me around, and I couldn’t shake clear of it. “I held on to anger for years, telling myself it was justified. Things I had done things others had done to me – even though I had made amends for most everything, the guilt ran deep. “I constantly felt guilty about things that had happened. “I was either trying to change it, or I was letting it control me. “I used to live in my past,” said one recovering woman. Holding on to the past, either through guilt, longing, denial, or resentment, is a waste of valuable energy – energy that can be used to transform today and tomorrow. The Language of Letting Go – Codependency I pray that I may rest safe and sure therein. I pray that I may be conscious of God’s support today. Be sure of God’s strength available to you, be conscious of His support, and wait quietly until that true rest from God fills your being. Commune with God, not so much for petitions to be granted as for the rest that comes from relying on His will and His purposes for your life. God’s everlasting arms are underneath all and will support you. Real relaxation and serenity come from a deep sense of the fundamental goodness of the universe. “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” For rest from the care of life, you can turn to God each day in prayer and communion. ![]() In most cases, the change is gradual.” Do I see a gradual and continuing change in myself? We do not need to acquire an immediate ad overwhelming God consciousness, followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook. This personality change is not necessarily in the nature of a sudden and spectacular upheaval. ![]() The nature of this change is evident in recovered alcoholics. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed. Let us consider the term “spiritual experience” as given in Appendix II of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous: “A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. And does not science demonstrate that visual proof is the weakest proof? It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all.” “Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof. today?Ĭopyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Am I putting anything before my sobriety, God, and A.A. I must always remember not to drink, to trust God, and to stay active in A.A. In sobriety my life gets better each day. ,” “I got fired yesterday,” “I got a great job today.” No area of my life could be good if I drank again. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job – wife or no wife – we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.īefore coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking a drink: “She said.
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