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Welcome. If you come to visit for the first time and have some questions feel free to ask. PM someone if you like but don't stay a stranger. We were all in the pit. We know a way out. No condemnation and no hammers. Just ask and prepare to make a load of friends.
We're not given more than we can handle.
Sometimes I take on more than I can comfortably manage - thatâs one of the ways in which my life becomes unmanageable. It happens when I'm operating according to self-will rather than the will of a Higher Power.
I believe that God does not expect more of me than I can produce, that along with the challenges and difficulties I encounter comes the strength I need to cope with them and learn from them. When chaos threatens, I'm either taking on more than I should, or I'm not using the resources available to me.
With recovery, we learn to arrange our priorities so that we do not get worn out with compulsive activity and busy-ness. Everything becomes more manageable when we're not trying to run the show by ourselves. Solid experience teaches us that support is always at hand, that our Higher Power comes through for us when we ask for help.
I will face today's tasks confident that I will be given the ability to accomplish my Higher Power's will for me.
Sometimes I take on more than I can comfortably manage - thatâs one of the ways in which my life becomes unmanageable. It happens when I'm operating according to self-will rather than the will of a Higher Power.
I believe that God does not expect more of me than I can produce, that along with the challenges and difficulties I encounter comes the strength I need to cope with them and learn from them. When chaos threatens, I'm either taking on more than I should, or I'm not using the resources available to me.
With recovery, we learn to arrange our priorities so that we do not get worn out with compulsive activity and busy-ness. Everything becomes more manageable when we're not trying to run the show by ourselves. Solid experience teaches us that support is always at hand, that our Higher Power comes through for us when we ask for help.
I will face today's tasks confident that I will be given the ability to accomplish my Higher Power's will for me.
Billy
My daughter was only 15 yrs old herself ... so this added to the traumatic event for all who loved and cared deeply for her and our family. I remember asking God as I talked to him when the Blessed Event was close at hand, well not asking....... but really giving God specific directions on what I would and would not accept.............. I told this Power Greater than myself, " If You expect me to be able to support my daughter through this You damn well better give me the Power to do so!!!!!!"
As the new-born infant heart surgeon came into the waiting room to give us the sad news, and we all understood that God was not barttering with any of us... My heart and my mind had side by side thoughts and emotions... they were my human thoughts and emotionsfilled with great grief, and the peaceful, serene thoughts & emotions that were given directly to me from this Power. Each time I had to be there to comfort my daughter I was given the power to not lose it in front of her.... I was given the place and time when alone to do my grieving. I knew without a doubt in any cell of my being from this experience onward that this Power is quite real and available to me just to the extent that I allow it to be.
He has given me serenity and peace to match the calamity that life will at times bring as long as I utilize what is available to me.
And As Mr. Gary Wanner once expressed to me... "Keep chipping away at the barnacles, and remember, "We are all faced with great opportunities greatly disguised as impossible situations."
And althoughn my friend was gone and not there to in person to support me he had signed my Big Book with this and his greasy paw print ;) and He has been supporting me from the other side where ever and whatever that is by the love he gave while he was here and the memory in my heart that goes on forever.
We are so important yet we do not know just what great an impact we may have on each other while we are here trudging the road together.....
In Love Light Truth & Service
"Stubborn" TerrieAnn