Keep doing you brother - I'm always blessed when I read a share from you! A part of me 'can't wait' to be older, wiser and more aligned with HP simply because my journey today has been so full of wonder, growth, positive change and spiritual rewards I really, really do feel that the best is yet to come.

I do know and accept that our literature grounds and centers me daily - it's not a task I take lightly. I am grateful for a calmer mind to be able to read, reflect, consider and meditate -- that's not always been the case for me. Some days are better than others, yet I feel blessed to be pushed by my HP to give it a try, one day at a time. I find myself often reading a page, feeling as if I've never read it before, knowing that not to be case, but rather 'more is being revealed'. How I 'see' the black/white words in front of me changes as I change, and the journey is well worth it!

Love and light brother - can you do me a favor and stop aging? If you're considering yourself 'elder', it brings direct awareness I am aging too! (((Hugs)))

 

Thanks Sisters...I am always aware of the purpose of our program and it's tools including the fellowship.  I know how and why I got here and why I need(ed) a power greater than myself who very often manifested itself thru the women in the program...Yes especially the females when I came into understanding the important differences between male and female.  For me and me only had I continued on using my masculine tools only I might not still be alive or allowed the freedom to live my life without other control.  It is meditating about the need and the affect of having other controls abiding within my life that I come to understand.  

Once after a meeting we went to visit with a female member of the group and when I walked into her  kitchen I noticed a baseball bat behind the door.  I didn't need to because I knew the size of her alcoholic yet I asked her why it was there and almost cried listening to the story. I related to the story thru my own anger and rage events and came to understand more.  "Now when I meditate it is always with me holding on to the clothes of my Higher Power.  "....relieve me of the bondage of self that I might better do THY WILL".

I often meditate with the definition of Love given to me by another female member one night after a meeting.   "Love is the   complete   and total  ACCEPTANCE OF EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING FOR EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE".  That of course includes all the alcoholics and addicts who are and have been in my life.

Thanks for your support.   ((((hugs)))) 

 

 

That the other member was a lady is continually important to me because it happened in a usual manner.  I use to sit in meetings and listen to the fellowship very deeply and when I was moved by their understanding and after the meeting I use to follow them to their cars and ask if they could stand with me and give me more of their ESH.  I was never refused and it was always female.  I use to think they would resist being "stalked" yet that never ever happened and they would stop and offer me the best they had.  This gal who gave me the "Love" wisdom was black and it was at night and she was not afraid.  I am and was so glad because the saying changed me deeply.  The alter of love to "total acceptance" and then of "every other person" appeared to come right out of my Higher Power's wisdom that I had to have it etched in my  mind and heart.  It Changed me.  What more could I want?.  I have no excuses left for not loving     anyone alcoholic especially.  ((((hugs and thanks))))