TOPIC: Is This Another Miracle? What Miracle Have You Experienced In Recovery?

[aasharon90]

Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.

By the grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR i havent had a
drink of alcohol since 8-11-90.

For that and you I am truely
grateful.

I recall yrs ago when we we living
back in Baton Rouge in this little
corner of the world.

We got married and had a little
garden home at the end of a street....
Very quiet....Well lots happened there
as we built our family and where i
lived half sick with alcoholism and half
sober.....

I cried and prayed countless times
that we would be plucked from that little
corner of the world.... We had 2 bedrooms
a boy and girl and soon would need their
own rooms....

We just had no idea how we could afford
to move out from that area,,,,,

Then one day my husband came home
and asked us if we wanted to move to
Houston....This would allow more opportunities
for the kids to grow in all areas of their
life which seemed positive....

So with his company 10 yrs ago we
packed up and moved here....

10 yrs passed and the kids have
excelled awesomely... even my husband
changed jobs which is also rewarding
to him....

Me....well im 16 yrs sober and i have
cried and wanted out from here all these
yrs.....

What's is wrong with me not being satisfied
where i live?

I move away from my parents at the age of
18 into an apt, ..Then couldnt wait to get married
and have a family and house....That happened
as we move into that little corner of the world.

I cried for out even there after i went thru having
2 kids to getting sober....

Now we have been here in Houston 10 yrs and I
want out again... However the move here was a

MIRACLE

as we needed something miraculous to happen to
helps us move out from there. And it happened...

Now for 10 yrs as ive cried and wished for another

MIRACLE

to help me get out of this house and bring me back
home to Baron Rouge....

IS THIS THE MIRACLE ONCE AGAIN?

I cant help be think that it is.....it had to
take Something to happen in order for this
to happen.....

I had tried countless times before to try and
get out but all failed...thinking it wasnt time
and not His will for me just yet.

I prayed hopefully for the right things this time...

For His Will be done and not mine....

All i want is to be happy now and to do what ever
i need to do to stay in the good graces of the
Man Up Stairs.

If i move without His help i will surely be doomed
again. So in my quest to do whatever it takes
i ask for guidance and help from Above and
help with working my program accordingly.

To not ask for anything selfishly. That I would
follow Him whereever He would want me to go.

And sooooo if this is a MIRACLE....things have happened
accordingly.....to go home and do the footwork
in getting a new job and low and behold it happened
as i tried sooo many times before with no avail.

The new job fell into place, then finding an apt...was
next.....then packing ...how smoothly everything has
happened so far for us....

Now the drive to Baton Rouge today and unpacking....

Am I grateful for all this that has happed soooo quickly?

You bet.....as long as i place the importance of first things
first which is my faith in the Power Greater than I and
working my program to the best of my ability....

How could i fail.....

IS THIS MY MIRACLE?

i BELIEVE IT IS.... : )

Do you have a story to share of a miracle whether
big or small to share with me and others in recovery
to give us hope?

Thanks for letting me share.

[Johneebegood]

SHARON,

I was an addict for 34 years.. a junkie God lifted me from the Valley of the Shadow of Death.. I was near death, had Hepatitus C, my body covered with abcesses, bankrupt, divorced, had lost it all. God restored me, in three years I have become a Christian Counselor, remarried, Im 51 yrs old and my wife is expecting in March. I had long given up on being a father.. The Doctors said she couldnt have a child. But God... He has shown me the desires of my heart . But the greatest miracle..He healed me of Hepatitus C, a disease I had had for 21 years.. Its fully documented and it boggles the minds of my Doctors... because its not in the Medical Books that a person can be cured...I tell em they are looking in the wrong book...Praise the Lord

[aasharon90]

That is soooo awesome John....And thank you for sharing ur
awesome story with me and others.....Im a slow learner but i
remain teachable as i continue to grow in recovery. I feel that
the longer i stay sober and do what is expected of me in recovery
then i believe the Man upstairs will shine down upong me.

Im still learning how and what to ask for....esp.not asking
for anything for myself...material things...but instead ask for
guidance, love, compassion, trust, serenity and much more
meaningful things.

This move back here to Baton Rouge so far does appear
to be one of His miracles bestowed upon me....How can I
not be so grateful.

We like many others are living proof that this program works
if we work it.

TERRIFIC..!

[Johneebegood]

Eccl. 2:10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired,I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work,and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done, and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind, and nothing was gained under the sun.

That was my life as an addict... Im thankful we have a God of second chances..



" Never embrace a philosphy that supports a lack of courage"

[best]

This is a tough question to answer because there have been so many miracles in my life I wouldn't know where to start and would never end with telling of them.
Just the fact I am alive and sober today is a miracle that starts this day.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God,
are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us
no one can recount to you;
were I to speak and tell of them,
they would be too many to declare.

[sugarssweetpea]

Some of my miracles are as follows: My sobriety from alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. My marriage, my children, my having our own business and home. God ALWAYS taking care of me, even when I was using/drinking. My salvation. Bringing me home to Him where I belong. God changing me DAILY to make me more like Him & more of the person He created me to be.

I thank you Sharon for starting this thread as I absolutely LOVE to see God's hand on others' lives.

[aasharon90]

Thanks Guys for some good shares up above.

Today i was unboxing more "STUFF" that i had
collected over the yrs....I felt soooo sick inside
about my selfishness of buying so much. What
a sickness i have had.....I have everything I
could possibly want in materialistic stuff that
I thought was making me happy all these yrs.
and yet as i look on all of it....it didnt really
make me that happy....i must have not been
all that happy with life and myself if i kept
buying "STUFF".

I moved back to Baton Rouge Yesterday from
Houston and have an apt. and will begin a new
job next Wednesday....

My family will reside in Houston as i begin my new
journey here at home.....

Im almost thru packing and getting situated but today
with sadness and disgust, if i had my way i would get
rid of everything I own except the shirt on my back.....

Nothing is worth it if im not happy...and I have not
been happy and content since the day i was
born....and whose to say i was happy to be born
in the first place... : )

I want to be happy...and i know what it will take to
get there....a Miracle or blessing from my HP to
fill me up with His spirit to continue to do His
Will or work as He would want me to do.

As Moses picked up his stick or rod to lead His people
so shall i as i pick up my tools of recovery and share
the words of recovery to those willing to hear it.

I know God is not thru with me yet as i remain
teachable and willing to do His will and allow Him
to work His Miracles in me.

Thanks for letting me share.

[Grasshopper]

Many,many miracles,thanks be to God.
I was dianosed with cancer,and told by 5 Dr,s that i had 1-3 years to live,with treatments.It was a very fearful time for me.Everyone then in my life,believed that they had my answers to my life.Pushing,shoving "their" answers,,lol.Somehow i knew deep down inside,that they didnt,have them.I personally chose not to take ,all,treatments,and hand this all over to God.Everyone must make their own decisions on treatments or not,personally.My story is not about treatments,its about God,s miracle in my life,today.Im typing to you all,9 years later.Its only through God,s Grace im alive today.This has really taught me,that today when others are seeking answers,that i share my experience with them,but much more than this,i pray along with them,for i do not know,how or,in, what ways God,will perform His miralces in their lives.My friend,who also was told pretty much the same as myself,has chosen treatments,and she is experiences miracles,in her life too.
Just never know--how God, works....smile.....
Even if i died today,its not the point,anylonger,its,because this all has brought me closer to God.Its this relationship thats important to me.Vital to me.
Praise be to God!!!!.Amen