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“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.”
- Alcoholics Anonymous
An alcoholic tears through life, I creating chaos and wreckage along the way. In recovery that wreckage must be cleared away to make room for the new and finer life I am to live in sobriety. I can look to my 8th or 10th step to find things that need fixing. It may take a very long time to clear away this wreckage, so I'd better get busy, because this wreckage cuts me off from my Higher Power.
Today I will pick at least one thing in my life that is between me and my higher power. I will begin fixing it in earnest.
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“To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems – most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I
believed – have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking.”- Alcoholics Anonymous
In my addiction, even the smallest of problems would build up until they became astonishingly difficult to solve. This is
paraphrased from the The Doctor’s Opinion in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In recovery I find that many of these problems existed only because of my addiction or simply never existed in the first
place. Those few problems that remain and that are clearly of my own making suddenly seem much more manageable.
With my Higher Power at my side, I can attack each problem with a vigor I had not previously possessed.
Today, I will approach my problems with confidence, knowing that in recovery there is nothing that is unmanageable.
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
When I am in my addiction I am weak. I cannot forgive myself nor the perceived injustices done to me. When I am in
recovery I find a new strength, and it comes from my willingness to forgive myself, and others.
A.A. wisdom boils the steps down into three parts. Trust God, Clean House, and Help Others. Forgiving is part of cleaning
house. It rids us of the the character defects that make us weak and keep us in our addiction.
Today, I will forgive myself so that I may better forgive others.
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I am beginning to actually feel the energy of love that I have inside. My entire being is in the process of being
transformed with love.- Time for Joy
As I grow in my recovery, I realize that that I am worth loving. If I can love myself, I am more capable of loving others.
When I was in my addiction, I could not love myself, and all my protestations of love for those around me meant little. How
can they credit my love, when my lack of self-worth is plain to see.
Today, I love myself. That makes me worth loving, and it means that the love that I give is more worthwhile.