Loosid Sober Tip of the Day July 29

A life run on self-will is doomed to fail.

Much of recovery has to do with taking us away from self-will and turning it over to a power greater than ourselves.

It is very important to note that it is not tied to any religion or devotion. It is 100% spiritual, and the higher power is whatever you want it to be, so long as it is not us.

To some, we turn our will over to this higher power who we may choose to call God. For others, who may be atheist or agnostic, we often turn our power over to our sober peers. In this case our God is Group-Of-Drunks.

Another thing we may want to do is add an “o” to God. When we are agitated, pause and think, what is the G-oo-d thing to do?

We can also look at it as Gift Of Dignity or Good Orderly Direction.

The most important thing to know that the answers will not come from us at it is our thinking that got us into trouble in the first place.

Just for today, choose to free yourself from the bondage of self and ask whatever or whoever your higher power is to direct your thoughts as to the next right thing to do.

How did this tip resonate with you? Let us know your thoughts below. There are many people in the Loosid community who need to hear what you have to say.

With Love, Loosid :pray::heart:

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True.!!

Love :heart:

I like the idea of this. There's aspects of this message though that worry me. And those are you know decisions that we made in our mess we're for self. not choosing to give it to a higher power in terms of aligning spiritually with the betterment of our life.
Some of us May still choose for self who we give our power over to. And I feel we must be careful because other individuals ambitions become what they want for our lives and not what is good for our lives.

I'm not debating it's just a thought. Definitely willing to discuss it though

So True!

Great insight

Love this message. In the Army we was trained to do everything as a team. A team is definitely a force greater than myself. There is no way I could fight a battle alone and be able to win, much less a war. Especially a war within myself. Granted we are trained to have mental toughness and fortitude, yet we can't win by ourselves. For me my disease of addiction/alcoholism completely shredded my mental toughness and fortitude. My will (decisions) got me into the war with addiction. Logic says my will (decisions) can get me out of addiction. What I failed to realize due to my ego is that addiction is definitely a power greater than my self, a negative power but still a power greater than myself. The disease of addiction and ego would intentionally mislead me and say, "you can do this alone, you don't need help to beat us." All along they're both sitting over there plotting and plannning their next move, while already having intel on my next move. The disease of addiction and ego was always two moves ahead of me on the chess board. I needed something greater than myself. I needed a team to help fight this battle and war. I needed a power greater than myself to fight these battles and fight the war. I had to surrender that I am powerless to fight this alone all on my self-will. I had to surrender to and accept a power greater than myself to help fight a power greater than myself (addiction & ego).

I can't fight this without my recovery/sobriety team and family. My higher power put that recovery team and family in place for me. All I had and still have to do on a daily basis is surrender to and accept them and their help. Thanks to my higher I can now have hope in winning this war with addiction.

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Just what I needed to be reminded of today :heart:

My word of the day is acceptance.

Exactly what I needed

My higher power is GOD!

My higher power is Jesus Christ .. He’s the only one who can give me strength to get thru each day.. He wakes me every morning and gets me thru the day to stay sober and clean.. without Him I would be in prison.. I don’t plan for tomorrow but I have faith that if I died tonight my name is in that book of life.. and I’ll be clean and sober when I meet my maker..!!

Love it. What ever it takes to get through the day one day at a time.