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Today, God, help me let go of my resistance. Help me know the pain of a circumstance will stop hurting so much if I accept it.
I have been thinking about resistance quite a bit lately. It was a massive hallmark of me prior to al-anon. What is resistance for? When did it become my MO? Did I choose this? Hugs, J.
(((Jean))) For me resistance seems to be the opposite of acceptance. It's related to my need to control when things were so out of control. Now things are not out of control, but the habit, like many other of my defects, is hard to overcome. When I accept, I have faith that my HP will work it out as needed. Faith helps my resistance to slip away. Faith in my HP, faith in my program of recovery, faith that I will have what I need when I need it, faith that others will find and/or grow in recovery without my help(inteference). Faith helps me overcome the paralyzng fear that is one of the worst causes of my resistance.
In recovery,
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~Jen~
"When you come to the edge of all you know you must believe in one of two things... there will be earth on which to stand or you will be given wings." ~Unknown
I can so relate to this. For me it was immaturity, lack of patience, lack of being able to accept reality and a whole host of charactor defects. I have huge huge resistance to seeing the A as he was. It had to come to total disaster before I really embraced this program.
