โ just like a child learning to walk, i sometimes stumble or fall. โ
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 08:40:32 AM
but my HIGHER POWER always awaits me with outstretched arms. i am supported by other members as i walk toward a full life in recovery.
so this is the second round of blogging on this topic. i guess my HIGHER POWER had different plans for my rant this morning, and so i will try and align my will...
having a much better today than yesterday, after cleaning up after my own stupidity, and so forth....
what i said earlier was that this whole learning to walk metaphor was more than a bit corny, and i often have thought of ripping this page out of my book and just skipping it all together. well apparently that is not going to happen, after all, i am accepting of the whole learning to recover paradigm, and part of that life is accepting that the addicts in their collective wisdom, decided that this reading was more than adequate to express the idea, that along the path of recovery i may need more than the resources i have available within me. i do need the support of a loving POWER GREATER THAN ME, and i do need the encouragement of the members who were here before me as well as those who have come after i made the commitment to adapt my life to recovery. and that is the real rub, just like learning to walk, adapting my life to fit my recovery is skill that can only be learned and practiced. yes i still can trip while walking, even after 50 or so years of walking on a daily basis, so in my recovery i also see that i can make a misstep and will end-up requiring a bit of assistance.
so it is off to the real world and time to meet a commitment or two!
so this is the second round of blogging on this topic. i guess my HIGHER POWER had different plans for my rant this morning, and so i will try and align my will...
having a much better today than yesterday, after cleaning up after my own stupidity, and so forth....
what i said earlier was that this whole learning to walk metaphor was more than a bit corny, and i often have thought of ripping this page out of my book and just skipping it all together. well apparently that is not going to happen, after all, i am accepting of the whole learning to recover paradigm, and part of that life is accepting that the addicts in their collective wisdom, decided that this reading was more than adequate to express the idea, that along the path of recovery i may need more than the resources i have available within me. i do need the support of a loving POWER GREATER THAN ME, and i do need the encouragement of the members who were here before me as well as those who have come after i made the commitment to adapt my life to recovery. and that is the real rub, just like learning to walk, adapting my life to fit my recovery is skill that can only be learned and practiced. yes i still can trip while walking, even after 50 or so years of walking on a daily basis, so in my recovery i also see that i can make a misstep and will end-up requiring a bit of assistance.
so it is off to the real world and time to meet a commitment or two!
∞ DT ∞