When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53
Today my choice is God. He is everything. For this I am truly grateful. When I think I am running the show I am blocking God from my life. I pray I can remember this when I allow myself to get caught up into self. The most important thing is that today I am willing to grow along spiritual lines, and that God is everything. When I was trying to quit drinking on my own, it never worked; with God and A.A., it is working. This seems to be a simple thought for a complicated alcoholic.
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AA is enough – AA works, if you work it.
God is. Bruce is not God.
braving the elements
when I was active in my drug addiction I was a bull in a china shop. The god of my understanding led me to step 1 in the recovery process.
It’s always going to be work in progress. And my best thinking, as they say, got me here.
I think this is about topic:
“Grace
She takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name
Grace
It’s a name for a girl
It’s also a thought that changed the world
And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness in everything
Grace, she’s got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She’s got the time to talk
She travels outside of karma
She travels outside of karma
When she goes to work
You can hear her strings
Grace finds beauty in everything
Grace, she carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips between her fingertips
She carries a pearl in perfect condition
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things
Grace makes beauty out of ugly things”
Music: U2
Lyrics: Bono
After 11 months sober, I was ready on Friday to jack it all in for a bottle of wine & a serious go at taking my life. I didn’t do either. Today I remain a grateful recovering alcoholic, whose life has been saved – yet again – by the grace of God, the commitment of a fantastic sponsor, and the miracle that is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous & the 12 step recovery programme. I’m not running the show. And because of that, I am enjoying a sense of protection that I never knew possible