โ accepting my life โ
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 05:46:54 AM
gratefully!
and that is truly the problem. being grateful for my life as it is right here and right now.
of course there are a few things i have the power to change like my attitudes, my behaviors, and my recovery but i want everything to change, NOW!
i do have enough wisdom to know that if i wish to stop living in my self-will that all i have to do is finish my second step and move into the third. if i am tired of behaving the way i am i can talk to my sponsor or a close-mouthed friend and ask for suggestions as how to do that.
so the problem lies in acceptance and not resignation, and currently, acceptance is the problem i am having. i know if one of my sponsees came to me with a gripe list about how awful life is i would lovingly suggest that perhaps it it is the way it is supposed to be, right now, and that perhaps they need to look for what is good and be grateful that they have those good things -- write a gratitude list DAMMIT!
well this morning i am grateful that i have the privilege of another day of recovery, i have people in my life that love and care for me, i have a job that pays my bills, i have a warm dry place to sleep and i have a loving, caring Higher Power that provides me with all i need. so that being said, i do feel that gratitude and not resentment is the path for me to accept my life today.
∞ DT ∞
and that is truly the problem. being grateful for my life as it is right here and right now.
of course there are a few things i have the power to change like my attitudes, my behaviors, and my recovery but i want everything to change, NOW!
i do have enough wisdom to know that if i wish to stop living in my self-will that all i have to do is finish my second step and move into the third. if i am tired of behaving the way i am i can talk to my sponsor or a close-mouthed friend and ask for suggestions as how to do that.
so the problem lies in acceptance and not resignation, and currently, acceptance is the problem i am having. i know if one of my sponsees came to me with a gripe list about how awful life is i would lovingly suggest that perhaps it it is the way it is supposed to be, right now, and that perhaps they need to look for what is good and be grateful that they have those good things -- write a gratitude list DAMMIT!
well this morning i am grateful that i have the privilege of another day of recovery, i have people in my life that love and care for me, i have a job that pays my bills, i have a warm dry place to sleep and i have a loving, caring Higher Power that provides me with all i need. so that being said, i do feel that gratitude and not resentment is the path for me to accept my life today.
∞ DT ∞