Good day to all. I am going to stray a little from the usual context of recent posts today and tell you something of my week end. This past weekend was my birthday. I turned 51 on Saturday. To some this might seem old, sometimes it seems old to me, when I consider the number and/or consider what I was once capable of physically. Yet usually I still see myself around twenty that is till I’m around those that around that age. It is amazing how age creeps up on you.
Well this past Saturday, my step-daughter was scheduled to attend her first Cheer leading competition. So we had to attend this out of town and as it happens it was in the city where we moved from over two years ago. Actually the city where I spent most of my clean time in. So as it happens my dear wife contacted a few of our friends (well some of my old friends from recovery) in this town and set-up a little get together. So after My step daughter’s competition, in which her team placed second. This in itself is a great accomplishment considering they did not have their music until the last practise. We went to my friends, where we saw a few dear friends, who out of friendship had taken time out of their lives and schedules to have this get together in their home. Where we played cards, conversed of old times and new, complete with a few cards, birthday cake and the required singing of “Happy Birthday”. It was just so touching of the effort by my dear wife and a few of my oldest and dearest friends. The ones who together have seen each other during their good times and their low times. It was to my once again the difference between acquaintances and friends. It was very special and touching to see these people and to see them acknowledge my birthday after so long a time and see them take the time and effort. This was one of the real true blessings that recovery has given me. Especially when I look back before recovery and think who would have taken the time and effort to do something like this for me, never mind, people that I haven’t really spent time with in years. This is what God and Recovery has given me.
Remember God does not create garbage
Real 12 Step Recovery
Real 12 Step Recovery, Getting and Staying Clean and Sober
WELCOME Hi There, this blog will be about what I believe to be REAL RECOVERY not band aids or feel good BS These are the hard cold true facts that I have learned and been taught by OLD TIMERS and People WHO HAVE REMAINED CLEAN and SOBER and "GOT A LIFE".There will be no original thoughts here, Because in essence there are no original thoughts only perhaps originals and/or different ways to present or illustrate old Ideas.Now that this is understood lets get to the heart of the matter. Recovery is not about coddling or enabling. IT IS LIFE CHANGING. PERIOD WELCOME to the hardest thing that you will do in YOUR LIFE. Make no mistake, Real recovery is not EASY, it is simple, very simple, Yet you will make it hard, as all before you have. Also let's get this STRAIGHT right off the top. REAL RECOVERY has nothing to do about ALCOHOL and/or Drugs. IT IS about the way you react to life, your perceptions, and YOUR actions. Alcohol and/or Drugs are just a symptom of YOUR disease. Take notice of the word DISEASE - Which in our case translates to ILL AT EASE or simply not at ease, which is the basic nature of our problem and answer to our solution.Back to why I state that this is the hardest thing you will do. I state this because Real Recovery Will challenge everything you know/believe or really what you think you know, Because you really don't know SHIT or you wouldn't need recovery. It will make you face the truth about your biggest problem YOU and YOUR THINKING. You will face the real you not the one we would like to see with all the justifications and rationalizations just the TRUE YOU.REMEMBER GOD DOES NOT CREATE GARBAGE >>>>>>>> If you have a request or enquiry Please Email me at wiledchild@live.ca I'd like to add one other thing here for all those who read this Blog. It's something that was taught to me That was invaluable to my recovery My Spiritual Advisor Taught me this. Don't believe a word I say , do not take what I say as the truth just because I say it or anybody else, for that matter. Check it out for yourself. Try it on for size. Investigate , find out for YOURSELF only use what you have read or heard as a reference point. Find the truth out for yourself . This way it is your TRUTH not someone else's. You will also not be believing a lie or untruth if you always check things for yourself . Do not believe everything you are told or read without checking it out.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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