Selfishness–self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62
How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and things will be perfectly okay without my control and direction. And how wordlessly wonderful to come to believe that a power greater than me exists separate and apart from myself. I believe that the feeling of separation I experience between me and God will one day vanish. In the meantime, faith must serve as the pathway to the center of my life.
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“Faith is the pathway to the center of my life”… what a concept!
I often feel like there is a tree laying across the path and I cannot see on the other side of it. I’ve read that faith is hope that has said it’s prayers. Today, I’m going to choose to live that faith.
“can you throw a dog a freaking bone”
I walked into the rooms of aa desperate and spirtually bankrupt, asking for gods help. Another ego maniac with a low self esteem. I began to take stock with the movers and the shakers of recovering addicts. They layed out a blueprint on how to live life and remove my self centered fears. I want when I wanted things my way. It was the frank Sinatra “syndrome”. I did it my way, and failed.Now I stick with the winners while releasing myself from the snobbery of terminal uniqueness. A fatal ideology suffered by many addicts who fall short to a new way of life. Today, I won’t have false sense of security and keep it a 100.