IF THE ONLY PRAYER YOU SAID IN YOUR LIFE WAS "THANK YOU", THAT WOULD SUFFICE. ~Meister Eckhart

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

04.27.05

Today I am grateful for faith. When I reentered the rooms of AA on November 18, 2003 it was all over. No more fighting, no searching for reasons to avoid people, places and things. My Higher Power was working in stealth mode and I didn't see it coming, I hadn't been praying to be able to stop drinking. As if by rote I made a phone call, accepted help, was taken to a meeting. I remember little about that meeting; the applause when I picked up my desire chip and Marsha and Diane.

The stopping fighting--the surrender, attending daily meetings, getting a sponsor, working the steps, developing a support group and seeing that the program has worked for so many people has given me faith. I did and still do as is suggested to me, and it has worked. Something so simple was at one time so overwhelming.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. -- Mahatama Gandhi

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. --Mother Teresa

1 comment:

dAAve said...

yes.i.agree.