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2 years
Posted On 09/06/2009 22:14:51
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So here I sit....thinkin... 2 years? Seriously? I feel I have lived a lifetime. I have felt sorrow and pain, happiness and joy. It was a long time ago I remember a different me, one that would hide behind a smile...feeling nothing. I take risks now (LOL) the healthy ones. I stay grounded more and more. I think before I speak. I can only say the blessings and miracles have come. I am going to graduate this year...with honors. The sobreity has not just given me a new way of life, but a new way of BEING. No need to take the edge off. HA! Why? Life is life, ups and downs, pain and pleasure. It is soooooooo amazing. And dudes, there is more out there, for you, for me, for all. It is plentiful. Peace! Lisa
Tags: Joy Gratitude Happiness Peace
I decided to post my first blog. I would love if everyone could share their first blog. I think the sharing will be insightful for all of us.
Happy New Year e family Peace Everywhere Lisa 60 Days sober Posted On: 11/05/2007 16:12:35 ...beginners meeting tonight. I wonder at where I was a short time ago. I have had no problem going with out alcohol this long. It was always"I'll quit for a bit" or "I need to detox" Never for life, never did I admit the truth, that I was sick. I have no control over alcohol. I just knew one day. It was like I was about to step off a curb and a semi was coming. Close miss. You know? Like, this is it girl. You can go no further with this lie. You are at the end of the road. So here I am. Praying every day that I won't break... so grateful for even this very moment, I get tearful. Tags: Reflective
Tags: Sobriety Inspiration
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
Catholic Nun, Missionary
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Life on Life's terms. Its a tough one...but it doesn't have to be. Swimming against the current , holding desparately on to something that will never be, never forgiving, harming others, all this is resistance...resistance to change or simply, resistance to life.
Peace be with you my brothers and sisters, Lisa
Tags: Hope Peace Friendship
Just a little hahaha before we get into the weekend...love you guys! Lisa
Ponderisms Can you cry under water? Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
If a 911 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call?
Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Tags: Funny Laugh Smile Uplifting
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
You are a hero! The strength is in you and you are amazing. Our battle is within us, we are our worst enemy. So how do you fight? Let your soul out. It is ready for battle and the life you have always wanted will be set free! Sober Today Peace
Lisa
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn What is it that you want dear ones? What lies deep in your heart? Take a moment, just for now and see yourself doing that very thing. How are you feeling? What are you doing? Is there anyone with you? How long have you been sober or clean? Enjoy your visualization for a moment. Get details and write them down. The more you define your dream the more you have something to reach for. Sobriety is our engine, it moves us forward. The promises ( big book 83 and 84) keep things on track and our dreams , they are the very thing we are. Sober today. Peace Lisa
Tags: Motivational Inspirational Dream Big
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Finals
Posted On 12/02/2008 21:20:36
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....papers clutter the coffee table, index cards glow from highlighted text ...its that time...final exams.
Dudes it still seems so completely sureal. Here I sit studying, reflecting...about the day I came to realize I was a complete powerless wreck, a shell of a woman..mother...lover ...friend. I feel like I am being guided.... Sobriety has taken me to the other side of the looking glass: to the depth of life, the sinew of feelings, the vibrant whirlwind of daily stress, all is so REAL. Its so beautiful man. I woke up from the grave , but I am not the walking dead. I woke up...I sobered up and kept going. There is so much out there and I want to share it with you my e-family. I want anyone out there to know it is all so real.... Your dreams, they can come true. Just remember when you reach for something, you have to stretch...it will be a bit uncomfortable but that too shall pass. Peace everywhere lisa
Tags: Reflectivelife Is Goodgood To Be Sober
Wow. A year has gone by...its amazing to think back just a year and remember the emotional unhealthy mess I was. Im so busy now it took a night fretting over exams to get up and write a blog. I mean my concern now is EXAMS and not getting through the day sick and hung over. The days were torture from the mind numbing blahness of it all. God (I laugh) I remember getting all excited on a Friday night because I was going to drink margaritas until I passed out watching the same movie over and over...it didnt matter I would never remember it anyway. Now my fridays are filled with laughter love my life. My days are filled with a life so full of The Promises...they really do come true. Something inside me has changed so much. Perhaps it is this next year to find out what. It is something right now I simply can not describe. I will say this...I no longer rest in the laurels. I know to much. Things are so different now that I am sober. I had no idea I was capable of healthy coping mechanisms. I never knew I was as strong as I am. I never thought I could go back to school full time, work and be able to live a great life and take care of my kids. But it is all happening. It is real. Dreams really do come true. Peace Lisa
Tags: Inspirational Sobriety
Just sitting here thinking. I have the windows open and the fresh gentle breeze summons me, "Come outside and play." I shall, I think. Gosh these last two weeks have been intense. I registered for classes and walked the beautiful brick paths at FSU. I could not believe this was finally happening. I had made it to a university. A few days later my car broke down. I was terrified the engine was blown. The only person who came to get me and my son was the guy I have been trying to distance myself from (he also teaches kids guitar lessons and remains close to them. I just dont think its healthy for me) and that says alot about his charachter. I was truly grateful.
I researched and calmed myself a bit but no words were more joyous that day when the mechanic said it was just the starter.
Then my daughter got lice after staying at a friends house. Oh the shear horror. I consider myself a strong woman and up to that point did not really have anything that would make me completely freaked. I have found that very thing. After 4 hours of shampooing and haircombing. I felt something in my hair and ran to the mirror, I had gotten them too! I dont know if it jumnped on me during the process of washing and sterilizing the entire house or when I did the initial comb befire her treatment. Folks when I saw that I, for a brief moment, wanted to be taken to the hospital. Seriously, I thought I was going to die.
I didnt and all is well. I just laugh at how completely undone I was by this lice. Ick, still grosses me out. There has been now some financial pressure due to the car and all the treatment I bought to get rid of the lice. Some stress and heaviness that I admit to feeling although when it comes I do pray, "God take this stress and finacial pressure form me, my will is thy will." I always feel better after that. School loooms ahead and I have to buy the kids school clothes, another expense. But honestly when I read the message from the devotional today I cant help but think...this is my heaven. It truly is. I have discovered this by facing my addiciton and remaining sober. I thank God for that, I truly do.~Lisa
Daily Devotional by Max Lucado
“the One who came still comes and the One who spoke still speaksâ€
August 9
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.
Matthew 13:44 (NCV)
When you list the places Christ lived, draw a circle around the town named Nazareth—a single-camel map dot on the edge of boredom. For thirty of his thirty-three years, Jesus lived a common life….
And the town may have been common, but his attention to it was not….He saw how a seed on the path took no root (Luke 8:5) and how a mustard seed produced a great tree (Matt. 13:31-32). Jesus listened to his common life.
Are you listening to yours?
From: Everyday Blessings
Copyright (J. Countryman, 2004)
Max Lucado
Tags: Inspirational Positive
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