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.
Good morning to all I would like to share some of the prayers
that have helped in my recovery. I believe prayer is a personal thing for some and some may not want to post I understand that.
But I would also like to hear some of the prayers that may have helped in your life or recovery. One of the only prayers I knew before recovery was . "O God never again." usually said in the morning after a session on alcohol and said with the hangover from hell. I said this many times.
Another I said on the footsteps of the courthouse I was about to attend . "God if you get me out of this one I will never do it again." On a few occasions it work but I still did it again.
Then when I came into recovery this was the first prayer I saw The Prayer For Serenity and though I didn't know what many of the words meant especially Serenity I felt a peace when I said it.
It help me except that I could not change 99.9percent of the people, places things and situations outside of me. Though I tried hard to. And all it brought me was more unease
.It also helped me accept that I could change 99.9 percent of the things inside of me the way a saw those people , places things and situations and to accept them has they are. And wisdom to know the difference between the to.
I have said this prayer many times over the years and it has been a great help in my life.
The Prayer For Serenity
God, Grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference. .
Just one more prayer for know that has also helped in my life and recovery and something I try live by ST. FRANCIS' Prayer .
ST. FRANCIS' Prayer
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Also a good but very short prayer.
God Help me.
God Bless...
LIonel
that have helped in my recovery. I believe prayer is a personal thing for some and some may not want to post I understand that.
But I would also like to hear some of the prayers that may have helped in your life or recovery. One of the only prayers I knew before recovery was . "O God never again." usually said in the morning after a session on alcohol and said with the hangover from hell. I said this many times.
Another I said on the footsteps of the courthouse I was about to attend . "God if you get me out of this one I will never do it again." On a few occasions it work but I still did it again.
Then when I came into recovery this was the first prayer I saw The Prayer For Serenity and though I didn't know what many of the words meant especially Serenity I felt a peace when I said it.
It help me except that I could not change 99.9percent of the people, places things and situations outside of me. Though I tried hard to. And all it brought me was more unease
.It also helped me accept that I could change 99.9 percent of the things inside of me the way a saw those people , places things and situations and to accept them has they are. And wisdom to know the difference between the to.
I have said this prayer many times over the years and it has been a great help in my life.
The Prayer For Serenity
God, Grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference. .
Just one more prayer for know that has also helped in my life and recovery and something I try live by ST. FRANCIS' Prayer .
ST. FRANCIS' Prayer
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Also a good but very short prayer.
God Help me.
God Bless...
LIonel
If being born is a sentence of death being sober and living a day at a time is the best way of making every day in between count.
I have always had a measure of fear of the 3rd.Step.
My perception of giving up my favourite area of cheating and turning over control to God who would never approve of my way of doing things was never an attractive instruction.
What I didn't know (and still don't fully) is that some perceived pleasures and shortcuts are more expensive than they seem.
Today to protect myself from the first drink I have to ask for the ability to live within the confines of what is OK and what is not OK.
Anyway how was I doing before asking God to give me a hand?
Not very well.
I had been demoted to a factory floor job cleaning oily sawdust with a wheelbarrow and putting down fresh sawdust.
I didn't have the gumption to know they wanted me to leave until I got fired from that job.
While typing, this note is probably clarifying things for me.
Like why should I be afraid to let God run my present and future.
MORNING PRAYER
God, direct my thinking today so that it be empty of self-pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear. God, inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions. Help me to relax and take it easy. Free me from doubt and indecision. Guide me through this day and show me my next step. God, show me what I need to do to take care of any problems. I ask all these things that I may be of maximum service to you and my fellow man. In the spirit of the Steps I pray. AMEN
NIGHT PRAYER
God, forgive me where I have been resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid today. Help me to not keep anything to myself but to discuss it all openly with another person - show me where I owe an apology and help me make it. Help me to be kind and loving to all people. Use me in the mainstream of life, God. Free me of worry, remorse or morbid (sick) reflections that I may be of usefulness to others. AMEN
(Both derived from page 86 in the Big Book)
God Bless...
Lionel
"I pray for courage as I begin this day, for I understand there is work to be done, burdens to be carried, feelings to be shared and joys to be celebrated.
Grant me the courage to be silent that I may hear Thy voice;
to persevere, that I may share Thy victory;
and to remember, lest I forget the way by which Thou has led me.
And when this day is done, O Lord, may I have the courage to see Thy guiding hand in the friendships that have been made, in the hurts that have been healed, and in the strength that has been given."
God, I can never get over the wonder of your forgiveness to me. Help me to pass on that forgiveness to those who hurt me. You forgive graciously, not grudgingly. Help me to do the same.
God Bless...
Lionel
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be
and whatever your labours and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful.
Strive to be happy.
(found in Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore. Dated 1692