Al-Anon Family Group

The material presented here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method to exchange information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal level.

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Post Info TOPIC: C2C, 7/29


~*Service Worker*~

Status: Offline
Posts: 2725
Date:
C2C, 7/29


The reading for Monday, 7/29, suggests finding a suitable Higher Power.  Suggestions are given for finding a power greater than ourselves, that we can come to rely upon.  These suggestions include:  God, good orderly direction, Allah, or the universe.  The author says that after Step 2, the rest of the Steps will not make much sense without a Higher Power.

Quote:  When I have at last realized that my problems are too big to solve by myself...I need not be alone with them if I am willing to accept help from a Higher Power.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I feel lucky to have had a spiritual experience some 25 years ago that was so powerful it stuck with me and enabled me to develop a relationship with God.  But its not so easy for others and it can be a real struggle.  I tried to think of some other suggestions for a Higher Power and came up with the moon, sun, stars, ocean, or Mother Nature.  It is a comfort and a blessing to have this belief in place which helps me heal and grow with alanon.  Lyne



__________________

Lyne



Veteran Member

Status: Offline
Posts: 27
Date:

I really like this reading Lyne. I like how Alanon makes reaching for a HP personal and no one else's worry but the person reaching. Before Alanon when I thought of ways to convince my son to seek help through AA, I knew there would be a wall because he does not believe in a HP and the steps so intimately embrace that belief and require it to heal. I thought well, can one reach for Good? What can I say to him to convince him to reach for his HP when words seem to harden his heart? Now I know that I can change myself, work on myself, cure myself along with my HP. This project I can manage and it's such a relief and freedom to take a step back (not down). I am grateful to Alanon.

__________________


~*Service Worker*~

Status: Offline
Posts: 2795
Date:

Thank you Lyne for your service... it is much appreciated! Thank you for your ESH, IamLynn.

I was one of those who had lost faith in God and had trouble moving forward in the program due to the wording. I was stuck on the first three Steps for a long time! I too, like how this program really emphasizes that your Higher Power is truly individual. With patience, I was able to find the HP that works for me!

I have agreed to take on some new learning/skills at my job that I really didn't want to... this is the first time in a year at my new career that I did not wake up excited to go to work!   I will need to be patient with myself and ask my HP for guidance. I am reminding myself that I am in Her hands & I need not fear or despair.

&



__________________

"The wolf that thrives, is the one you feed." - Cherokee legend

"Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields... Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."  Mary Oliver

 

 



~*Service Worker*~

Status: Offline
Posts: 11569
Date:

Thank you Lyne for your service and the daily! Thank you all for your shares and ESH. I was raised with religion and had left that way behind! When faced with the word God in the steps of recovery, I literally panicked.....I arrived with very black/white thinking and no shades of gray. I really, really, really had to hear 'of my understanding' over and over and over again to explore what a HP would/could mean to me!

It took me time to sort it all out, yet I did begin using prayer and meditation immediately simply because it was suggested and it brought relief to me. I was one who was raised with 'fox-hole praying' and needed all kinds of practice to believe and accept I was truly not responsible for my destiny, only my actions, words, deeds. I have always loved the Serenity Prayer as it puts me in my place and helps me trust/believe/accept a power greater than me will do for me what I can't do for myself.

I do believe that any power greater than self will work! Loved hearing Good Orderly Direction when I arrived as well as nature, the group, etc. It finally clicked for me that the use of the word God was just easier for those who put the steps/recovery suggestions together. I am grateful I am one who was able to define, accept and embrace a God of my understanding. I feel and pray for those who are still reliant on self-will and ego. Just for today, that's not me! One Day at a Time, I continue to practice turning my will and love over to the care of God, as I understand him.

Happy Monday all - been golfing and doing some chores before Tacos! I wrote it last Monday and will write it again - love Mondays!!! (((Hugs)))

__________________

Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging.  Pause before assuming.  Pause before accusing.  Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret.  ~~~~  Lori Deschene

 

 

Page 1 of 1  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.