The Gift Of Fellow Travelers

Happy Thursday all! Taking life so seriously can be so tedious and unproductive; also it just downright detracts from your quality of life. After all no one makes it out alive anyways. However it is something that happens to all of us from time to time. Yesterday as I was checking out some of the other great blogs on recovery, I happened upon two in particular that brought this home to me, they helped me realize where I was really at. I happened upon a blog where the lovely woman was speaking about the value of gratitude lists, and then upon another where this insightful gentleman was extolling the virtues of the practice of step three.
For me this brought many things to mind, or should I say back to the forefront of my thinking. Of course the above was the overall revelation brought back to my thinking; however the underpinnings that these writings invoked were as follows.

Basically it brought back to me, again, that even though we may know these aspects and practices of being grateful and turning it over to the God of your understanding, to name only a couple. The fact of the matter is that occasionally we just get caught up in our own lives and struggles going in. I’m not going to bore you here with the petty little issues in my life, except for one. And it is usually that one thing that brings us over the top, that one little thing that knocks us slightly off the beam, of being centered and focused. Well mine is, last year I suffered an injury that has left me with reoccurring headaches, to the point of if I don’t lay my head just right when going to bed, I get this throbbing pressure headache that just increases in intensity, or if I move the wrong way when sleeping it wakes me up. I’ve had numerous tests and as yet they still can’t figure out what’s going on. However for the last month or so they have been intensified and lasting longer, to the point where I have to stay awake till exhaustion to be able to sleep. Well over time this has lessened my quality of life, not only from the lack of sleep and pain of the headaches. The build-up has also caused me too slowly to lose a little gratitude and to become frustrated over the other little issues in life. Thus slowly forgetting to just do what’s right and what is right in front of me, and my God will provide.

My basic point in all these ramblings is that we all need an outside reminder at times, to bring us back to what we know to be true. Otherwise we start taking ourselves and life too seriously and our whole quality of life diminishes. When this happens, life no longer is a journey and wonder, just a struggle and when this happens we are in trouble. That is one of the reasons that fellowship can be so lifesaving. I thank those other blessed bloggers of recovery for being there and writing what I needed, for sometimes we fail to heed the advice of those closest to us. So further prove of a God as I understand him, as everything happens for a reason.

Remember God does not create garbage