I just wanted to share. Most people sont get it...but I know those in meetings and yall will get it. And Im not gonna make it to a meeting....
Today I had a 1st. Im back in my chosen trade, and today the evening guy was sick. Now before I got sober, if i was asked to work a double it just ruined my day. How dare someone impede on my time to get slammed! To drink away how awful i thought people were, i was, my wife was. How dare someone impede on my time to get drunk.
But today...I thanked God for the extra hours. And honestly i never thought about drinking because I was too busy being grateful. But then i got off work(stay with me here, ok?) and i thought man! That feels good. I wasnt hurrying up just so i could drink. Man! Im off work and i dont want a drink to drink this day away. Man! Im taking life on lifes terms. Man! God blessed me with more hours, i stayed busy because of good sales...And for this day, I am so grateful
Oh yeah! And the benefits of sobriety start kicking in! You rock my brother William!!!
I give all glory to God. 10 months of rehab were a great foundation. But there was no how to live, only intense Biblical Study. So after the program I was like well...what do I do now? I already had the job when I got out but even after 20 years of it I was so lost. Then I started sitting in rooms and learning how others are living...the rehab had maybe 1 other alcoholic. In those rooms I hear my story in another way...I hear my feelings and thoughts coming from another mouth...and today I saw a side of myself I never would have thought existed 1 year ago
Now that's an awesome story! A similar thing happens to me every few years, something will occur in my everyday life that hasn't happened to me since I was drinking and drugging, but the way I find myself intuitively handling the situation through Clear Eyes never ceases to just blow me away!.. As time is going on now, I'm finding it happening less and less only because over 34 years of clean and sober almost everything in my life has repeated again since that day I first walked into AA ... it's the gift that just keeps on giving..
This is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing. It took me over a year to really get the focus back to work and family and the gratitude I have for both. Even after being sober for a while I still had that feeling that everything else was just getting in the way of my drinking. I’m not out of the woods yet. I’m not sure I’ll ever be, but it’s very liberating to have turned that around.
Congratulations on the 34 birthdays! My 1st 1 is coming up. I want to enter addiction ministry. To find a place where I can tie both of my programs together and help truly help others
It's 1 day at a time....some days I break it down to an hour at a time. I just try to stay busy. Post here, church, meetings, work...even my work I see as servitude as I'm a meat cutter. If I'm helping others my problems sometimes disappear and other times they just solve themselves when I'm not looking
I still do an hour at a time pretty frequently but do the same as far as staying busy. I always try to have the next thing to do in front of me, and if not I go to meetings or call a friend or a relative. I’ve recently started volunteering at the VA hospital, sitting with vets, and it’s been a blessing.
My brother Joe, although it gets so much easier, we are never truly Out of the Woods.. This lousy disease of ours has large fangs, and just waits for the day that you drop your guards!. And thank you so much for helping out our Vets!!!!🫡
You hit it man! Helping others is pretty much how the whole ball of wax works!!!..
I’ve always been a firm believer in karma, but through all those years of drinking and treating myself and others like cr*p, I couldn’t figure out why good stuff never happened to me. I wanted to put bad stuff out there and somehow get good stuff back. Yeah. No.
I don’t even need to get something back for playing cards with someone in the hospital. It’s its own reward.
I was there; I lived to drink but it does feel good to be sober. By the grace of god I got past my fear and found a way to get my sobriety back.
Amen
Only by His grace
William I can relate 
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