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.
I was shopping the other day and saw a card that read
WHEN YOU HAVE MASTERED YOURSELF THEN YOU HAVE MASTERED LIFE.
I bought the card and intended to give it to my sober ABF who is just coming out off avery big slip. However I have grown a lot the past couple of months and realised that ithis is what I need to know so I wrote the card to myself and dated it with todays date.
I wrote
18/9/12
been in recovery for five years in Nov. I finally realise its all about me. I am responsible for me my behaviours, actions, attitudes, feeling, choices etc. I have spent five years getting to know me, where i have come from. I have needed to come out of denial slowly about mu family and childhood. Its not about blame we all did the best with what we had.
So as from today i have to accept the past and the things i can not change or control.
I need to pray for the courage to change the things i can. Work on me, learn how to master myself with the help of HP and support of recovert family. Eveyone else is on their own journey, responsible for themselves, I must hand them over and trust.
I feel so blessed to have recieved the gift of recovery from my HP and feel as though my hard work is starting to have positive outcomes.
Love it! Very powerful. You checked your motives and realized that the card meant more to you than it might have to your A. You really are in recovery.
that is lovely...and your were im working to get too..its great to be able to take care of ourselves with the love and guidance of our HP...i feel i am now on a great adventure. I could relate to the family thing absoulutly great.
thanks for share.
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What a caterpiller calls the end of the world....God calls a butterfly
