The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
As I have gone through this process of recovery, I think I have learned most about how my HP works. My HP certainly doesn't make things easy, and it's not all about instant gratification. I have felt multiple times where I have been pushed & challenged, where I have felt hopeless and fed up, where the old tapes just won't stop playing in my head, only to feel the alternative at a later time. Not instantly, but the next day or the day after that. It ALWAYS happens--every single time.
I wrote on Sunday about how I felt like I had "lost it". I got some wonderful responses full of wisdom and decades of experience. What a wonderful gift that is!
Last night, when I got home from work, I found a home full of peace and happiness. Not perfect, but everyone was "ok". Now, I understand that even if everyone is not ok, it is my choice to be happy or not. But it was a nice feeling, especially after feeling what I felt over the weekend.
This experience from this past weekend has been a learning experience, and as unpleasant as it was I have learned something for it and I am better for it. That is a good thing.
This too shall pass...
-- Edited by usedtobeanyer on Tuesday 27th of March 2012 08:07:37 AM
Recovery sure looks and sounds great on you. I do think the big issue in my life is that I expected life to be easy and perfect. If HP was helping me I should be able to just coast.
Reading your posting reminded me that HP gives wonderful gifts and it is up to me to un wrap them, use and appreciate them. It is in the unwrapping that I sometimes falter and want to give up.
Thank God for the wisdom of alanon -- reminding us to keep showing up and remembering that "This too shall pass"
Great Post!!!
-- Edited by hotrod on Tuesday 27th of March 2012 09:14:44 AM
I love the post, it coincides with something else I read today, regarding the humility aspect of recovery. Jerry F taught me that the attitude of being humble is to be teachable. At one point, I focused a LOT on that and just kinda decided that everything is God. Reality as it is, good or bad, is going to pass as you say, and yet things are EXACTLY the way they are supposed to be, at this moment in time. My resistance to that causes me to suffer.
Today I know, my Higher power doesn't want me to suffer. My serenity is in direct proportion to my level of acceptance. Thanks for the reminder, I always need it.
-- Edited by glad lee on Tuesday 27th of March 2012 09:02:53 AM
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