Topics 11/9/24 ❤️🩹
1) But first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun.-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10
2) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.’
~Albert Einstein
When my problems are significant and my program isn’t working, I work my sponsor’s program for awhile. ~Pocket Sponsor
3) Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.”-Henry Fielding
The acceptance of my disease has brought me into recovery. If I had not known and confronted the disease of addiction in my life, I would not know the joys of sobriety and serenity. Spirituality involves facing my disease.
The disease was not only my prison but when accepted, became the key to recovery. Spirituality, finding God in our lives, requires a “rigorous honesty” that uses the past pain to experience today’s gratitude.
God, it is through the acceptance of my failings that I can love the world. ~Father Leo’s Meditation
4) Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. -Jean Kerr
Hope is something that comes more and more readily to me as I stay abstinent and continue working my program of recovery.
In the past, many of my feelings of hope were centered around the next drink. However, now that I am abstaining and practicing the Twelve Steps, I have been freed to hope for bigger things and now there is space in my head where the drinking obsession used to be! ~One Day At A Time