# For my first Monday of Summer break.
# That told a family member who is in recovery with 3 years,
that I have my first 40 days today.
# For a city that never disappoints with new and exciting stuff to do and see....
# That I could afford a nice breakfast and lunch at two of my favorite Hell's Kitchen spots today.
# That I knew the first names of everyone at the morning meeting today.
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A Manhattan Man Completes His First Years of Recovery
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Hi! I'm Sober Guy and I'm an Alcoholic. I've completed my first year of recovery in NYC. This is my recovery blog... Welcome. Take what you want and leave the rest. Feel free to leave a share...
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The Promises
"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through... We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness... We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it... We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace... No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others... That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear... We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows... Self-seeking will slip away... Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change... Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us... We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us... We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves... Are these extravagant promises? We think not... They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly... They will always materialize if we work for them".
-- Alcoholics Anonymous pp 83-84
-- Alcoholics Anonymous pp 83-84
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Acceptance
"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes".
"Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes".
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 449.
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1 comment:
I love knowing everybody at a meeting. Except, of course, if there's a first-time newcomer present.
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