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 Sometimes it takes a few more times for others? I know I sure as heck wouldn't listen to nobody? I didn't care what you said, I wasn't about to admit nothing. TO ME That's a pure outright sign of WEAKNESS??? I spent my whole life striving to be strong and they wanted me to say WHAT? I'm Powerless and something had power over me. I Wasn't having it? NOW I am 47 yrs older, I survived it, God helped me I IMAGINE, cause I did alot of stuff?? MORE than a few lifetimes. SO, I KNOW now it's THE BIGGEST SHOWING OF STRENGTH YOU COULD EVER SHOW SAYING YOU NEED HELP. I needed and I have it now. GOD BLESSED me with the GRACE to SOBER up and I am here to tell it to anyone who will listen. I AM SO Blessed to be sober after 34 or more years of drinking & drugs. BUT, drinking every single day of my life. I haven't had a drink in 5-6 almost 6 yrs now, I LOVE IT. Sobriety is my calling and I live it every day, I know how both lives are I choose LIVING FOR ME.deb
Tags: Sobriety Native Pride Recovery
With God's Grace I am alive and well today to live another year & another day to worship my God. HE is the main thing that pulled me out of my Addiction to drugs & alcohol. Only he could do it, and me and my tools, my counseling and treatment conbined help me for the first time in my life be able to have a clear head with good decisions to make for me & my family. Since then I have been spending alot of my time trying to HELP other's find a way to stop using also. I know that when they see me, they want what I have and that's one of the best things that I can show them. It's so worth finding a new lifestyle and living it for the rest of your days. I am truly blessed by the Steps, Just for today and all the literature that comes with Treatment. Without people going through this before me could I have been so lucky to find the things that helped them to use in my Recovery, I thank them all today, GOD BLESS US ALL IN RECOVERY & THOSE WHO NEVER HAD TO GET LOST IN THE LIFE TO KNOW GOD GRACE TODAY!
Tags: Recovery God Sobrietyaddiction
 I know now that without work their is no sucess in Recovery. I must pray a few times a day not to think too myself of my self also? It's a hard thing to change but since I have been attending CHURCH 2 times a week, & Counseling it's starting to become second nature. UNTIL I start to be around family, then I regress back to the OLD SELFISH person I was trying to erase??? I have to work diligently on this bad habit, BUT I have special hope that God has been helping me! I know it's hard to change someone who's habits are embedded in their psychie? BUT, if you attack it enough times somethings got to give? LOL??? but, I will continue in the NEW YEAR just as you are to try and pray to be a better person that I was in my past. I am so grateful for finding all new friends.Here on this site and other Recovery sites too. cause were so insync, everytime you say something or post it It's something I have been thinking about and working on alot. THANKS for that, so I don't feel so alienated to be the ONLY ONE. We are addicts trying to be a better person with new lifestyle changes for the better. I share my Recovery with all that see me. They want to ask how much I have changed and they must hear how & WHY. I cannot tell the story without the truth slipping out about God & Recovery, they go hand in hand with me, every day until I leave this Earth & forever. THANKS for the great Inspiration last year & this new year also. I look forward to reading more to & sharing more. DEBRA Rincon LOPEZ (FARMER) in Portland,Oregon USA.
Tags: Recovery God Sobrietyaddiction
My responsiblity is for myself and how I feel. Nobody can change the way I feel at any given moment. I used to react quickly by anger first reaction because I was afraid to let anyone get close to me. SO they couldn't hurt me or use anything about me against me. NOW I know that they can say anything they want, it's up to me to show other's that it's not true. AS long as I inside of my soul know that I am good natured and hurting nothing or anyone, it matters not what anyone says about me. My therapist told me it was because I was afraid of unacceptance, I said I don't care what others think of me. SHE said on the contrary I cared too much about what they thought about me, SO I have been working on this issue for about a year of more now. I have found peace inside my soul and happiness, with my own self. I don't need anyone's acknowlegment to make me who I am. I am a grateful and blessed person who want to HELP other's any chance I can. Cause when I do it; HELPS me inside to feel good about myself also. I have found a responsible person inside of me. I am responsible for me and only me. I am a mother but I can do all that I can for my sons. NOW they must be responsible without me being there, and so far they have shown alot of courage and been working hard in COLLEGE. I am proud of them and I raised them well. I feel good inside for all the things I have accomplished on my own. I have found my own joy in life.
Tags: Recovery God Sobrietyaddiction
I am aware of the things from my past that I hid from my family. With so many years of addiction. But alot of them are still in addiction so I don't have to apologize to them? Just the one's I hurt I have done that. God is the one I rely on and I give him my pain & my worries. I can't live holding on to all the pain of my past anymore. I had to get rid of it forever. I can now start over attracting the good things in life I deserve for being clean & sober for the past 2 yrs now? I deserve everything coming to me. All my sons are doing great in College. I have no more pain. Not so bad anymore. I am on no more meds to cloud my judgement. I am releaved to find that i can live and free & happy life now. No more obstacles in front or behind me. I am learning alot from your teachings. I can't surround myself with enough positive people and learning new things everyday makes me happy for life and I have missed alot. I empower myself no complaints from me. I want all happy & good in my life now. I have found it for once I can feel God loves and cares for me.
Tags: Happiness Humility Joy Hope
GRATITUDE is the one thing that I have alot of? Without it I would be a smug head case wouldn't I? I guess I just still cannot believe that I haven't used any alcohol for the past 5 yrs still? IT's a pure miracle. BUT I sincerely know without GoD's help this would have never came about. JOYCE MEYER MINISTRIES show's on television sure didn't hurt either. I was watching her and it gave me the idea to get some help finally. THEN I started reading the bible then I thought IF THERE's a REAL God he is the only one that can HELP ME NOW! So I asked and it's was like he took away the hard part the cravings and the repetition. Cause were talking someone who drank alcohol every day since the age of 15yrs old. I am now 47 yrs old. SO GRATEFUL is all I can say, It works if you want it Sobriety that is, ASK GOD & YOU WILL RECEIVE HIS HELP. Like I did. It's for real. I have gratitude, joy & happiness all full up in my life instead of Addiction, hangovers, drug pains, stealing, lying and no money in my pocket!!! THANKS TO GOD & GRATITUDE & AA IT WORKS!!!
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If and without God I wouldn't know a sober life ever until now? I finally after 32 plus years of alcohol abuse and drugs also decided it was no longer fun? It was more work than fun probably for the past 15yrs now. So, I thought what do I have to lose if I just ask God to help me get out of this horrible addiction to alcohol & drugs. All that could happen is I get sober, then I first of all called a hotline, a Crisis line here in town where I live. They didn't believe me when I said this to them. So then I went to my caseworker I had been working with and they didn't believe me either? then they kept saying your what addicted to what, who, what are you talking about. I kept saying me I have been using drugs & alcohol everyday almost for the past life since I was aged 15yrs.old. Which I was 45yrs at the time. They sent me to a detox place and they wouldn't let me in cause I was down & out a homeless person or dirty or had needle marks, or I am not sure what an alcoholic or addict is supposed to look like? Anyway's I had to talk & talk for hours until they would believe me. Then they finally gave me a Urinalysis test and saw that I had a high concentration of opiates and alcohol in my system. They said your over the legal limit 4times how are you walking and talking so well? I said what I do this everyday and that's my life. Finally they listened to me, but they still didn't kinda think I was telling them the truth. But here I am now sober going on my 3rd year or more. I am so darn happy I could sing in the streets. BUT GOD HELPED ME GET TO WHERE I AM NOW AND I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT HIM. GOD BLESS SOBRIETY LIFESTYLE CHANGES IN MY LIFE NOW!
Tags: God Sobriety Change
Surrender Strengthens You
The paradox of surrender is that it produces power and victory. Stubborn temptations and overwhelming problems can be defeated by God when handed over to him.
As Joshua approached the biggest battle of his life, he encountered God, fell in worship before him, and surrendered his plans. That surrender led to a stunning victory at Jericho.
Surrender doesn't weaken you, it strengthens you. When you are surrendered to God, you don't have to fear or surrender to anything or anyone else. The founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, once said, "The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."
Why surrender?
Because you belong to your Creator. God has a right to direct your life: "We are not our own bosses to live or die as we ourselves might choose". "Acknowledge that the God is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people ..."
When you surrender to God , you fulfill the very purpose he died for - not just to save you from hell, but also to save you from self-centeredness! We Christians do not live for ourselves, but for our God.
"At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes" .
Our surrender is the only reasonable response to that kind of love. You cannot love God without surrendering to him.
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The longer we stay clean, the more we experience feelings of gratitude for our recovery. These feelings of gratitude aren’t limited to particular gifts like new friends or the ability to be employed. More frequently, they arise from the overall sense of joy we feel in our new lives. These feelings are enhanced by our certainty of the course our lives would have taken if it weren’t for the miracle we’ve experienced in Narcotics Anonymous. Sometimes we can't speak the words we want to share, so most of the time that's why I need to use my blog postings for sharing. I get stumped & confused in public meetings. The words hardly come out right? But, just as long as I am grateful for where I am in my sober lifestyle is all that matters. If this helps anyone else to decide to get into Recovery & Sobriety, then I did something for another person. JUST as other's before me have done to help me in my time of need. WE all cherish the people who said the right words to make us want to see how our life could change. Then when we have a little time under our belts, it's better than we could have ever imagined. Then we stop and think, WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO GET HERE. But, it just goes to show, when your not ready NOTHING CAN MAKE GET READY BUT YOU! You have to be ready to hear the recovery and share and do what's best for you. That's all that matters.GOD HAS GRACED ME WITH A SOBER & SERENE LIFE NOW, I WON'T MESS THIS UP. I CAN'T REMEMBER MY OLD LIFE. SO THANKS FOR THAT. I CAN ONLY LOOK FORWARD. Don't forget your past, but don't have to feel the Guilt everyday. LEAVE IT IN THE PAST! That's the first thing to do, forgive yourself for your past mistakes and start ANEW!
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