Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Daily Mediation
Whatever is in your heart will come to the tongue.
-Persian proverb.
During our illness, we wouldnt let people get close to us. We spoke much of what was in our heart. And much of what filled our heart was sadness, anger, and hopelessness.
Those who wanted to be close to us heard what was in our heart. In short, we had become our illness.
Recovery is about changing whats in our heart. We open our heart to the program and to its healing. We open our heart up to our Higher Power.
The first three Steps are about opening our hearts. Theyre about honesty and needing others. Theyre about turning our will and our lives over to a Higher Power. If you wondering where you are with the Steps listen to the words you speak.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, keep my heart open to the first three steps.
Action for the Day
Today, Ill work at really listening to what I have to say.
Whatever is in your heart will come to the tongue.
-Persian proverb.
During our illness, we wouldnt let people get close to us. We spoke much of what was in our heart. And much of what filled our heart was sadness, anger, and hopelessness.
Those who wanted to be close to us heard what was in our heart. In short, we had become our illness.
Recovery is about changing whats in our heart. We open our heart to the program and to its healing. We open our heart up to our Higher Power.
The first three Steps are about opening our hearts. Theyre about honesty and needing others. Theyre about turning our will and our lives over to a Higher Power. If you wondering where you are with the Steps listen to the words you speak.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, keep my heart open to the first three steps.
Action for the Day
Today, Ill work at really listening to what I have to say.
I cant
He can
I think Ill Let Him.
For me this rings true much of what filled my heart was sadness, anger, and hopelessness. I had built this brick wall around me where no-one could get in and I found it hard to get out. It was a horrible place.
But by taking this program out of the BB and of the walls and putting it into my life I was able to take that wall down brick by brick it didnt happen over night but it happened and I was able to replace that sadness, anger, and hopelessness. Happiness Joy and hopefulness, Today I can approach people and people can approach me. What a difference.
Life be in it..
God Bless
Lionel
I just couldn't imagine living life without alcohol.
For me all I thought about was how I was going to get my next drink.
I accepted I may be dead at 40 because that's when most people in my family were dying mostly alcohol related.The strange thing ,it was at 40 I hopefully had my last drink.
I was unable to hold a conversation with anyone talking about politics or daily events but if alcohol was mentioned I could jump straight in.
I could tell you the percentage of alcohol in any drink.I could tell you the location of most pubs/ bars around the state .I used them in a similar way one would use a street directory.
So I to found it hard to imagine never going without alcohol and I just hung on in the beginning because what I could see on other peoples faces was a whole lot better than what I had to return to.
For me it was a minute at a time then 5minutes then an hour until finally I was able to live a day at a time .Progress not perfection.
Through the grace of God ,AA and a lot of foot work I had my last drink of alcohol on the 27-9-1991 I haven't needed to drink in that time though early on I wanted to.
Do what you have to do to stay sober because the best is yet to come.
God Bless...
Lionel
Think the first three lifts the obsession and the rest are all about change.
Thanks for the post