500 days!
Raised from the Dead
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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500 days!
whoa just checked the sober calculator and i happen to have 500 days today. i give all the glory to God, creator of the universe. On January 29, 2006 i was raised from the dead by God himself. i learned a valuable lesson that day...God is Faithful even if you dont have Faith yourself. when times are tough i trust God. when times are good i praise God. thank you to all people in Alcoholics Anonymous for reminding me on a daily basis that God has restored me to sanity. i am no longer full flight from reality and that is a miracle!
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Congratulations!! That is wonderful news.
I am so very happy for you. Thank you for sharing, it gives me the hope and inspiration that is truly needed through these days of despair I have been going through.
I am so very happy for you. Thank you for sharing, it gives me the hope and inspiration that is truly needed through these days of despair I have been going through.
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Originally Posted by chicago 
whoa just checked the sober calculator and i happen to have 500 days today. i give all the glory to God, creator of the universe. On January 29, 2006 i was raised from the dead by God himself. i learned a valuable lesson that day...God is Faithful even if you dont have Faith yourself. when times are tough i trust God. when times are good i praise God. thank you to all people in Alcoholics Anonymous for reminding me on a daily basis that God has restored me to sanity. i am no longer full flight from reality and that is a miracle!
That's wonderful! I went from being an agnostic a couple of years ago to a believer finally after much book reading. I had intellectual problems with it but now I found it to be a heart thing not so much a mind thing.
When I'm feeling very spirtual, I have no problems not drinking but I forget and don't think much about God for a while and I get weaker about alcohol. I need to remember every day.
I don't know about attending AA again when I get my license back in 3 week.... I'm thinking I'll get counseling in church by someone that knows about alcoholism. I don't know why I have an aversion to AA. I hope I get over it. I didn't go for the 22 years I was sober but I read a lot of self-help books etc...... so I didn't white knuckle it at all. This relapse of mine has really thrown me for a loop, it's been a struggle for 2 years now to stay off of the booze. I've gone 6 months twice without drinking and 4 months once and a month here and there with short bouts of drinking but enough to get two DUIs, which I never had one until I was 50 years old. How embarrassing!
IO Storm
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Southern California
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Chicago...
Amen to your post...an example of God's gracde toward us. He saved me from suicide
on June 8, 2006. I see you give your HP the credit and the glory for your
progress as do I.
Keep the faith and congrats!
Love,
IO
Amen to your post...an example of God's gracde toward us. He saved me from suicide
on June 8, 2006. I see you give your HP the credit and the glory for your
progress as do I.
Keep the faith and congrats!
Love,
IO
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