Daily
Reflections reading April 27th
Joyful Discoveries
We
realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to
us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who
is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But
obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your
relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and
countless others. This is the Great Fact for us. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164
Sobriety
is a journey of joyful discovery. Each day brings new experience, awareness,
greater hope, deeper faith, broader tolerance. I must maintain these attributes
or I will have nothing to pass on. Great events for this recovering alcoholic
are the normal everyday joys found in being able to live another day in God’s
grace.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on April 27th Reading
The joy is in the journey of recovery,
there is no greater joy than the natural high of recovery, the journey into my
recovery is just simply living life on Gods terms not my own, the joy I receive
after I walked the dark lonely road thru my past making the amends
Asking for forgiveness and learning how
to forgive myself, was the mere beginning of a life of love peace and
happiness, I did not know existed before recovery, today I know what it is like
to care for the life of another human being in recovery
Today I know that for me I will never be
recovered from this disease of mind, body, or spirit, for me when I take that
last breath here on earth I will then be recovered for the disease, I did find
the spiritually with-in me, was always there waiting for me to accept it
If I had not change the way I was living
my life all the wonderful things Sandy and I are sharing today would not have
been possible with out changing myself, I needed to do more that just put down
alcohol I had to learn how to live my life without the false hope alcohol gave
me
I just needed to change my attitude and
myself centered ways, accepting that I was not the most important person in the
universe anymore, but rather just one more bozo on the bus sitting in the
middle not controlling anything
God has blessed me with the ability to
change with hope and love in my heart, I have been given this second chance to
live and to enjoy all the pleasures of a sober life, absolutely free from the
bondage of myself, I am a loving caring person today
Yes the joy of recovery is in the journey
thru my life, accepting the good as well as the bad, the greatest joy I receive
today is watching others see the light of Gods will in their lives, to watch
them grow with-in this fellowship carrying the message to others
What a joy it is to get my coin each year
they add up fast and to have all my friends share my joy God has been wonderful
to Sandy and I even when tragedy strikes we are prepared for it, we lost an 11-year-old
grandson, our son needs a liver transplant
We are both in poor health, but in spite
of these things we have a life of joy and peace, because of this fantastic
program we live one day at a time take the good with the bad and stay close to
our God, laughter attunes us with others and with the world
When we go to meeting, we feel a bond
with others as we laugh together at some piece of insanity or a witty joke
laughing with the people today not laughing at them, thru our laughter we are
brought closer to other people who have been down our road
Alcohol isolated and drove us into
ourselves retreating from our common humanity into a single unhappy
consciousness, our world narrows, joy retreats, laughter is shut out this is
not the way Sandy and I want to live today Joy is absolute in the journey
God bless you Al M
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