Thank you so much for responding, everyone! What a joy to read about your journeys and discoveries!
I would love to continue to post more about this aspect of alcoholism/recovery -- the truly rewarding walk with our Higher Powers! It's so lovely sharing these positive persepctives and would certainly inspire others! Maybe we could do a semi-regular check-in and post the jewels/joys we are experiencing?
The other day I came up with an analogy for my relationship with God. I feel like Ralphie in A Christmas Story! He does all this scheming, planning, plotting, worrying trying to get the object of his desire -- the Red Rider BB gun! At some point it finally dawns on him to go to Santa, "the big man! The head honcho!" (Of course, it turned to be his parents that bought it for him, but still ... he gets it in the end. He asked and he received.
I will catch myself occasionally agonozing about something and then realize, I haven't asked the *real* head honcho!
And even with all that said, I still manage occasionally to "shoot my eye out!"
