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information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
Today's reading resonated with me, when I first started intensively going to Al-Anon meetings, I was trying to analyse the situation, my circumstances and environment, I am a scientist by training and so I was looking through matters using that lens.
It was only when I've started actually trying to let go of control, to acknowledge my powerlessness and to also practice Al-Anon in all my affairs that I eventually started to believe and understand. I can truly say miracles happen and I in a much better place personally and mentally.
The end quotation really made me stop and think today when I was listening to the daily readers from the AFG Daily Readers Community on WhatsApp...
From the Today's Reminder in C2C;
Todays Reminder
Does analyzing my situation provide any useful insights, or is it an attempt to control the uncontrollable? Am I taking inventory or avoiding work that needs to be done by keeping my mind occupied? I have heard that knowledge is power. But sometimes my thirst for knowledge can be an attempt to exercise power where I am powerless. Instead, I can take the First Step.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Thank you so much for your post. Alanon works when we work it and Step 1 is practically the key to everything else: I am powerless over people, places, and things. Before recovery I tried endlessly to get my A to stop drinking and all it did was put me in a devastated state of mind. I came to alanon as a last resort and OMG, its completely changed my life for the better. On a good day, I can control myself, and that has to be my focus now. Grateful member always.
