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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Do You Take The God Of Your Understanding With You Everywhere, Or Hide Your God In Meetings

The whole basic precept of the 12 step program is based on the premise of faith in a in the God of your understanding, or at the very least the adhering to spiritual principles. As our strength in the belief and faith of these principles, grows so too does the quality of our lives and relationships. However as we begin to reconnect with society and family. Or more aptly put as we strive to put our lives back together, and start on becoming contributing members in society and “get a life”. We put ourselves under pressure to get decent employment and get better things for ourselves and/or our families. It is in these times that we can get caught up in life. We can forget to bring our God, to job interviews, to the supermarket, to the commute to and from work, to our place of work and even sometimes home with us. This is a condition that can and does affect all, not only the newcomer but also those with years of being clean and sober. We can all get caught up in life, striving to find decent or better employment, losing a job, dealing with stress of deadlines, on and on. Life can be stressful; life can present us with many challenges. And on occasion we can create even more stress on ourselves to perform better, or to earn more, to keep up appearance. We can get so caught up in this material world, forgetting the spiritual principles and the joy our lives were having. That is till we started worrying about the material things of the world, about image. Forgetting that we are in the world, yet not of the world, forgetting where we came from, forgetting to be happy with what we have and what we have achieved rather than what we do not have. Basically this comes when we are not carrying the God of understanding with us at all times. For God has not forgotten us, we have forgotten our God.
Remember God does not create garbage
Posted by BILL at Wednesday, April 13, 2011

4 comments:

  1. HappyKApril 13, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    God comes along with me all day. I start out my day with a little prayer as I walk out the door on my morning walk.
    Thank you God, for this day.
    Walk with me along my way.
    Do with me what you may.
    Make me a better person today.

    ReplyDelete
  2. dAAveApril 13, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    Hi Bill. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a few comments. They're appreciated.
    However, I have a question.
    On your sidebar, you have a "Passing the Basket" link to accept credit cards. Are you trying to make money from your recovery blog?

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousApril 14, 2011 at 6:45 AM

    When I forget to be consciously grateful, I veer from my "spiritual" principles without even realizing it.

    ReplyDelete
  4. BILLApril 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM

    Hey There DAAve as per your question, to be honest I would love to be a professional blogger making a living at doing this, however I doubt that this is going to happen. However it was suggested to put this on as I have seen a few others. I cannot not tell you what others have done with any donations they have recieved, I can tell you of the $0.27 that has been donated has gone to my home group in the basket. If it were a larger amount it would mbe split between meetings and probably the recovery houses I volunteer at, which is one less if you read the most recent post

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
myfreecopyright.com registered & protected