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Daily Reflections: Loved Back to Recovery

Wow!  I haven't read a daily reflection in some months.  I chalked it up to business in my schedule, but that is only too convenient.  When I pull back the layers I can objectively say I've allowed other things to take priority.  I didn't manage my time effectively enough to get to bed at a reasonable time, to wake up early enough to train, or start my day with prayer or reading the daily reflection. I am indeed busy, but I always make time for my son, my girlfriend, work, making meals, cleaning, etc.  I need to remember the desperation I had when I first sought sobriety.  I NEEDED prayer, meditation, and meetings the way I need oxygen, food, and shelter. In any event, today's read is called Loved Back to Recovery, and it is beautiful in it's simplicity. I could not will myself to sobriety.  I could not will myself to self-love. And for sure no one else's love could make me sober or bring me to self-love. There is a direct correlation be...

Daily Reflection: Do I Have a Choice?

DO I HAVE A CHOICE? The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. — ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 24 My powerlessness over alcohol does not cease when I quit drinking. In sobriety I still have no choice — I can't drink. The choice I do have is to pick up and use the "kit of spiritual tools" (Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25). When I do that, my Higher Power relieves me of my lack of choice—and keeps me sober one more day. If I could choose not to pick up a drink today, where then would be my need for A.A. or a Higher Power? Another great an timely reading.  I was trying to explain to someone with no drinking problem why I don't drink.  I don't drink because I LOVE the life I live today.  And I've never been able to live this fully, honestly, hopefully, purposefully, or spiritually AND drink.  The simple fact is I am powerless over alcohol.  I ...