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Happy New Year everyone! This is the first time I have been on this site since the new year started & since I have gotten on at all! Today happens to be my 24th Alanon birthday; I am so grateful for all the years I have been in alanon & have met some wonderful loving & caring people including all of you! Although I can't see all your faces, I know you are all just like me; searching for recovery, serenity, and healing in your lives. I am hoping that this new year will bring more serenity to me than last year. I guess I just struggled so much that I couldn't enjoy or apprecitate my life in general. Now I can accept, though, that there will be challenges this year, just like last year. But, today, I am doing OK thanks to my HP. He has pulled me through the lasf few days of 2009 & now I am going to put that all behind me. Christmas was rough & then some. My family just doesn't "get "me at all. But, that is their problem not mine! Thank God for forgiveness & the ability to move on! Today I will not get angry or frustrated over things I can't control at all. I am just grateful for today. Thanks for putting up with me these past few years. God bless. ODAAT. Hoot
Thank you for that inspiring message, Hoot Nanny. I really needed to hear that you can come through this and out the other side. I just hope and pray I have the same strength of spirit as you have and will eventually be OK.
HootNanny, thank you for an inspiring post. I'm pretty new here and I while I know that reading and practicing the steps and giving over to my HP has been a big help, the BIGGEST thing to help me has been the outpouring of support from the people at this forum. It was hard to believe at first that people I've never met actually care about me-but they do! And that goes a long way toward helping me in my recovery. Yes, there will always be challenges ahead but with our HP and the folks here we will be able to meet and overcome them.
