STICKING TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

Monday, February 22, 2021

NOW I SEE

 

My name is Sherman and I am a recovering alcoholic...

It's been just over 4 months since my last drink and I had sober time before but like all the times before I would find myself drinking again only harder and longer. This time is different in that I have embraced AA and the Steps of AA. Every day I ask my Higher Power to take my life and my will for the day. To give me peace and a loving heart. I also work the Steps, most I try to work every day in some sort of fashion but this morning was different.

This morning while I was having quiet time with God I realized that I was finally living life. You see before, while I was drinking and even before that, I never really lived life. I just existed and did as little as I could to exist. You see I never knew that you had to deal with feelings, defects of characters, short comings and just normal self-growing. Maybe if I had done these things earlier in life I wouldn’t be an alcoholic now. It was like I was ‘Seeing Life for the First Time’.

In the last 4 months I have seen so many flaws in my character and I am ok with that now because I want to work on them. I want to learn what real love is, how to be a true friend and a sharing part of this world. There is some much to do but I am letting God lead me in those things that I need to do Just For Today. If I don’t do this I will be overwhelmed and lost.

I am so happy to be sober today and it's like what some of the old timers say, “I don’t know if God led me to AA or if AA led me to God”, but which every way it happened I will never see life the old way ever again.


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