TOPIC: Do You Believe SOMEONE Is Listening?
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TOPIC: Do You Believe SOMEONE Is Listening?
Hi, my name is Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
By the Grace of my HP and people like you
here in SR I havent found it necessary to
pick up a drink of alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely grateful.
"HE Had Been Listening."
"In thinking all this over, it finally became obvious to me
that the HP I thought had judged and damned me had
done nothing of the sort. He had been listening, and in
His own good time His answer came. His answer was
threefold: the opportunity for a life of sobriety; Twelve
Steps to practice, in order to attain and maintain that life
of sobriety; fellowship within the program, ever ready to
sustain and help me each twenty-four- hour day.
Some few days sober down the road I still believe
this.
The part where it says "...in His own good time." That
is where i have had to learn and practice continuousely
...patiance..... Nothing is gonna happen in my time....never....
so why waste a minute worrying.
In time when you least expect it....miracles of our
AWESOME program will happen.
Each one of us is a Miracle in Recovery.
Thanks for letting me share.
By the Grace of my HP and people like you
here in SR I havent found it necessary to
pick up a drink of alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely grateful.
"HE Had Been Listening."
"In thinking all this over, it finally became obvious to me
that the HP I thought had judged and damned me had
done nothing of the sort. He had been listening, and in
His own good time His answer came. His answer was
threefold: the opportunity for a life of sobriety; Twelve
Steps to practice, in order to attain and maintain that life
of sobriety; fellowship within the program, ever ready to
sustain and help me each twenty-four- hour day.
Some few days sober down the road I still believe
this.
The part where it says "...in His own good time." That
is where i have had to learn and practice continuousely
...patiance..... Nothing is gonna happen in my time....never....
so why waste a minute worrying.
In time when you least expect it....miracles of our
AWESOME program will happen.
Each one of us is a Miracle in Recovery.
Thanks for letting me share.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: anomaly
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oki doki ...
I don't think anything or anyone actaully hears me or care to, especially now.
I don't feel so in touch with the HP thing at the moment.
perseverance...man O man..I can't handle it anymore.
Then you just gotta go and write about miracles and stuff like that.
It's not that i havn't felt like this before.
My arss hans't fallin off becuase I'm still clean and sober.
Don't drinking no matter what is a bit painful to practice sometimes
It's half ass cleared to me.
Changes.....yikes !
Hopefully it'll make me stronger if it dosn't kills me.
I still feel like dying thou.
So there you go..if there is a god...he/she/it better step in now.
Cuz i need help sometimes or most of the time.lol
I don't think anything or anyone actaully hears me or care to, especially now.
I don't feel so in touch with the HP thing at the moment.
perseverance...man O man..I can't handle it anymore.
Then you just gotta go and write about miracles and stuff like that.
It's not that i havn't felt like this before.
My arss hans't fallin off becuase I'm still clean and sober.
Don't drinking no matter what is a bit painful to practice sometimes
It's half ass cleared to me.
Changes.....yikes !
Hopefully it'll make me stronger if it dosn't kills me.
I still feel like dying thou.
So there you go..if there is a god...he/she/it better step in now.
Cuz i need help sometimes or most of the time.lol
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Murrieta, Ca
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SaTiT, my opinion on hearing and being heard is this: God always heard me, and tried to show me the way. It's just that I wasn't listening, and I couldn't see the opportunities He was always placing before me.
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Well satit we are in the same place right now..but i still know there is something out there...cuz if i lived my life at 2.5% and got 5%, it's because there is a God...When it takes so much time to self destruct is because God whispered so much and tried to stop us, and through all the stages of destruction there was an unheard whisper...I just have a difference..I know He tried to help me, i just didn't let him..I was warned and didn't listen..
for other people i still believe in miracles in their lives..thks Sharon for the amazing post, once again..i was actually missing you, haven't seen crank...
for other people i still believe in miracles in their lives..thks Sharon for the amazing post, once again..i was actually missing you, haven't seen crank...
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[b] As was explained to me...prayer is "talking" to the Higher Power...meditation is "listening" to the Higher Power. Obviously, the authors of the steps thought there was "someone" listening...we just needed to learn to listen in return.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God...
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okay ,
if there's is a god...and even if someone or something heard me or understood
me, it wouldn't a make any difference if there's a change until I do something
about it. A part of me feels okay with it...not sure what part thou.
okay..what if i just don't care or wish to care. nor I want to belive at the
moment. All I'm saying is...it feels like I only see one set of foot prints
and they look like mine. I hope there's a god, cuase if there's not...We're screwed.
Or at least I think I am
It passes, as it always dose.
Changes is uncomfortable as heck.
A HP or Recovery is easy to do on an easy day, but holy schmolly
it's hard to belive when it's not totally right.
I guess courage is not without fears.
I wish for a miracle but it's never on my time.
it totally blew my mind that after all these years, and it kind of jump out
at me. I read in the 12 and 12 the other day,that sometimes in recovery I'm required
to musturd up more will power than can ever imagine.
if there's is a god...and even if someone or something heard me or understood
me, it wouldn't a make any difference if there's a change until I do something
about it. A part of me feels okay with it...not sure what part thou.
okay..what if i just don't care or wish to care. nor I want to belive at the
moment. All I'm saying is...it feels like I only see one set of foot prints
and they look like mine. I hope there's a god, cuase if there's not...We're screwed.
Or at least I think I am
It passes, as it always dose.
Changes is uncomfortable as heck.
A HP or Recovery is easy to do on an easy day, but holy schmolly
it's hard to belive when it's not totally right.
I guess courage is not without fears.
I wish for a miracle but it's never on my time.
it totally blew my mind that after all these years, and it kind of jump out
at me. I read in the 12 and 12 the other day,that sometimes in recovery I'm required
to musturd up more will power than can ever imagine.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,240
It was neat how i heard about "patiance" today at a meeting...
It's amazing what I hear...it's things i really need to hear....
You guys are amazing too....sharing ur experiences, strengths
and hope with me and others reassures me how AWESOME
our recovery is and it works if we work it....
Don't give up ur faith....
Each day u drank or used...u got sick....
Each day u dont drink or use u get better....
Thanks for letting me share.
It's amazing what I hear...it's things i really need to hear....
You guys are amazing too....sharing ur experiences, strengths
and hope with me and others reassures me how AWESOME
our recovery is and it works if we work it....
Don't give up ur faith....
Each day u drank or used...u got sick....
Each day u dont drink or use u get better....
Thanks for letting me share.
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