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Great passage and very true. I'll never forget when I was revealing a very painful piece of my past to a sponsor many, many years ago and she said something to the effect that...perhaps I'll be able to use that pain to help someone else recover from it. I thought I was so unique...and boom. I can't tell you how many people I've related that experience to now.
So many people, sadly, that CAN relate to that experience and feel their own pain. I guess, in a way, the pain was worth it so that I can help others. Seems like a strange way to look at it...but today, I've forgiven God and myself.
I have learned and realized that I don't always have a part in things that have happened to me. Some things I truly am an innocent victim. Some things I can't be held responsible for. That was SOOOOO freeing for me. I am so grateful for my sponsor giving me that key; without that key I wasn't able to accept or forgive.
I am grateful that I can use painful events in my life to help others overcome their own painful events. And so thankful that others have shared their own painful events with me to help me get through my own. What a wonderful, loving circle I'm part of, in AA.
Jen
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