When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being.
Today I am grateful...
- for the directing board at Lambda Center
- that I could sit in during yesterday's board meeting and offer suggestions
- that after watching the movie "Drunks" last night I did not have any desire to drink, although it left me a bit uncomfortable
- for preventive measures and not acting alcoholicly (excuse that spelling, please)
- that strength comes from many sources, in many forms
- for all the mysterious things my Higher Power does
He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered. In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which he had hitherto denied himself. ~As Bill Sees It
3 comments:
I hope you enjoyed your night off, but it sure wasn't the same without you. I'm glad that I got my Scott fix Friday night instead!
I've never seen Drunks before. Is it worth checking out?
that strength comes from many sources, in many forms
One of my sources of strength is YOU.
I see you,
JJ
Hiya Scott! I saw "Drunks" years ago when it came out, and watched it the first time in sobriety just a couple months ago. I adore Richard Lewis (especially in "Curb Your Enthusiasm") and had mixed feelings throughout the movie. One, I'd rather sit in a real AA meeting than watch one unfold onscreen. And two, without giving the end away, I LOVED the end in that it showed in living color exactly what I don't want to experience -- and what my disease doesn't want me to see!
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