Lets have CAKE and celebrate a year living a life of sobriety! Wow, where just 1 year can take us when we make a decision to turn our life and will over to the one who can restore us to sanity. I love being sane! It's way, WAY mo betta! Sobriety = peaceful living and enjoying God's WORLD!

LET go AND move ON!!!
Life is good! Good things are ahead.
Even if we cannot see what's around the corner!

SOME OF THE BEST MEETINGS are on the holiday!!!! Great fun, good food! No reason to risk H.A.L.T. = relapse. (hungry? angry? lonely? tired? = GO TO A MEETING NOW!)

Merry Christmas! This is the day we remember God had to send a Savior for us because of the way we kept screwing up! I am grateful to be forgiven today! The pain and wreckage of my past is behind me now and I have a choice to make new traditions for the rest of my life. Well, the kind the result in peace and grace and hope and ones that can help me be reasonably happy.

Enjoy:

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Enter by the narrow path for wide is the road and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go by that way. Because the way is narrow and the path is difficult which leads to LIFE few are they who find it.

God never gives us more than we can handle.......

Accepting Responsibility for our actions, making a list of all we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.....in itself can be very scary. This comes with the package and decision to turn our lives and will over to the care of God. No matter what, we know that with HIS power to see us through, we are gonna be OK. Better yet we can have rest in knowing we are and have been Forgiven! Selah.

Don't Worry! Why worry if you pray and why pray if you worry?
And this we know for sure:
Everything is going to work out or everything will work out!
Because God can take ALL things and work them together for good for those who are in Christ Jesus and have surrendered to his will.
And that's all we know!

I shall be God's little hand maiden,

Acceptance with Joy!

So who did you inherit those beautiful brown eyes from? Or are they BLUE? Or that nose? Or is it THIQ?
THIQ? = Tetrahyroisoquinoline. In a jist of a story, there is a recent scientific proven fact why some in the family have inherited the addiction gene and some have NOT! Basically, either you have it or you don't! Trouble is, the only thing that activates this inherited chemical THIQ component into full blown alcoholism or your drug of choice addiction is a one time consumption of you take your pick: Alcohol!


If you have this gene it explains why some people can drink sensibly and why some CANNOT and are powerless over alcohol or their drug of choice. It is the difference between the "addict" and the "normie". For some folks, it is just not their fault they are like this. But it is their responsibilty to grasp their own sobriety. They are the ones that can never touch it. Makes so much sense really. So no matter what, as Father Martin says, we must urge our addict into what works. A 12 Step Recovery and/or treatment of SOBRIETY !! This is why the struggling loving family member of the addict can say, "I didn't cause it, I can't control it, and I can't cure it!" No matter how hard we try! What this gives the family member, is a respect for the nature of the disease. We can respond with love and firm boundaries NOT to enable. Instead with our tools in place we can lovingly contribute to the person to hit their own bottom to choose LIFE and HELP via treatment. Thank goodness for Ala-Non and its community of support for the frustrated and exasperated family members of the alcoholic! It's going to be OK! ............

Nothing going to break hearts more than seeing the one you love using and determined to be "OUT THERE"




I can't, but HE can, so I think I'll let HIM..... handle it! And that is all I know.
Thanks for letting me share!

When I need it most, I admit my life has become unmanageable. There comes a time when I must admit I am powerless over something and that it is destroying lives, mainly my own. I admit and I surrender to a HIGHER POWER who has the power to do for me what I am unable to do for myself, and that is restore my life to sanity.Here is a song that puts a focus on my idea of a change: Whatever You're Doing (Something Heavenly) - Sanctus Real

Yes, so then there is a surrender of my life and will to my Higher Power and trust that someone else is really in charge. In my case I believe the Creator of the Universe, GOD himself ought to be able to handle the likes of me. I need that, someone who can see the beginning and end all at once and who won't fall for my tricky tricks!
Sure, I must decide to make this journey on a path all by myself but what I don't know today is that there is a community of support to keep me company on my new path of sobriety for tomorrow!
How about this, take this test and see if you want to come with me on this journey of new life....
http://www.whitesidemanor.com/self_evaluation.htm
OKC ya!

In Memory: ANAHEIM, Calif. (April 9) - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others were killed by a suspected drunk driver Thursday,

Ever heard the term: Quit shooting yourself in the foot?

Often the bystanders who watch the insanity of addiction unfold upon those they love just wish they'd have the sense to put the gun down and "stop shooting your foot if you don't like the consequences! At least don't whine about foot pain and blame others for your own doing!"

It can be so hard to bare the watching of someone in self destruct and everyone can see the "hand writing on the wall" but the addict!

It is by the grace of God our troubles catch up to us so we can face the painful reality of consequences for our own choices. Owning up to the bad choices we have made and surrendering to God to be our sole HELP in time of trouble is our only hope for a miracle of true recovery. Hopefully after many prayers by those who love and care about us we chose surrender and reach out for recovery before we harm our self or others.

The Angel's pitcher who just lost his life and 2 others at the foolish decision of a young kid who chose to drive while under the influence. He had already lost his license to alcohol abuse and now he will feel the pain of killing 3 innocent people because he was a dumbass again. Let's choose life, God and 12 step recovery while we can before the bad thing happens.

http://www.fanhouse.com/news/mlb/nick-adenhart-killed/421624

It is already bad enough to hurt everyone else around us by our addiction but it will be so quickly forgiven and forgotten as we make the choice for life and sober living today. There is hope. God is with us to lead us out no matter how deep we are in when we finally turn to him. He has the power to help us recover when we clearly do not!

Call that number for AA or NA today! It is free! It works if you work it!

Insanity=doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result!

How many times do we do this kind of thing? Climbing into the vehicle empowered by alcohol thinking we are the best driver in the WORLD. How many DUI's or crashes will it take to learn that the poison that consumes us is a killer to us or other's? Maybe it's not alcohol you are powerless over. Is it money? How many overdraft charges or insufficient funds letters per month or year will it take to enlighten us to the fact there is a problem with the way we do business? Do we think the ATM is a slot machine? Do we stick our head in the sand writing checks we hope will be OK?

12 step recovery works if you work it. It meets the need with a miracle with whatever the venue is that has made our lives unmanageable! As we turn our lives and will over to HIM He can restore us to sanity so we can be a responsible, functioning member of society doing good to those we cross paths with! There is HOPE!

God is patient, God is kind and it's by the grace of God we fall into our own misery.
This is when there is hope, recovery will work. When we run out of our own ideas of how to get straightened out! We are now willing to yield to His plan for healing...

God can see the forest through the trees. As we yield to His will for us, He often unfolds the way we never knew was there at the moment we ponder surrender.....

Got a resentment? Make a grateful list!

We have to do this to get peace. Our anger will soon turn to bitterness and resentment that can make us ill and steal our joy and peace. No matter what we have been dealt there is still room to be grateful to God for something. Lot's of things really come to mind once you set your pen to paper. Oh yeah, has someone hurt you deeply? This hurts too.... pray for them to get everything they need! Just do it....your miracle will come. Remember this: I can't but HE can...I think I'll let HIM! So in other words ::::: TURN IT OVER!

CRY OUT to Jesus....

FIRST Say YES to nutrients in natures purest form!
Alcohol strips the body of nutrients (esp vitamin B's)and can bring our body into a malnutrition state after a time of binging. See this interesting study by Bill W. and what a few of his alcoholic buddies tried! Nutrients are vital to our recovery of any toxic state we put ourselves into with our vices!

http://doctoryourself.com/alcoholism.html

or to stop smoking:

http://doctoryourself.com/cstop.html

"Hey! It's not your RIVER!!!!"

These words are still ringing in my ears. Everyone was having a good time on a holiday as I noticed someone I love may have had too much to drink and as my concern or worry brought me to say the word's "Gee it seems like you've had a bit too much to drink today" and there was the Epiphany reply that put me in my place. "Hey, it's not your river!"

I am powerless over what other people say and do. I can only control my own actions or thoughts and pray for those whom I care about. God hears my prayers and the others are for Him to lead and guide into sobriety and safety. It is none of my business really what the other people do as long as I am not enabling someone else's bad habit!

Soon after I came to my senses, a good time was had by all .... woo hoo including ME!

Need to find a AA meeting where you live??? That's easy! Click here!http://aa.org/en_find_meeting.cfm?PageID=29

Most of the important things of the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all!

Dale Carnegie

A SURE pathway to death by disease: Nicotine Addiction!



Take your pick today for tomorrow:

• stroke
• heart disease
• sudden death by heart attack
• slow ugly death by cancer
• or not being able to breathe COPD/emphysema

         (the last 10 years feels like each breath is our last only it's not.)

YES, we will need a caretaker to push us around in a wheelchair with our O 2 tank and set up the hospitable bed in the living room our last 5 years. . If that doesn't scare you,  how about losing your breasts for a smoke lady's or guys: impotence? It'll be something you won't like so think it over.  Can you see the grief and sadness on the faces surrounding you on your death bed? They are sobbing because they love you and are sad because your bad habits caused this gruesome way to die early. We leave this planet far before our time because we thought what we thought about our addiction.  We tell ourselves lies, we justify our habit, we like the taste, we enjoy the method of auto intoxication or that "chemical nicotine fix" or mind altering high! Do what you can to STOP SMOKING NOW! Save yourself! Don't get dead!

The death angel waits close by those who are foolish and ignore suggestions for long life, health and happiness.  It is NOT a mystery, sickness and disease is scientifically, man made and created on a molecular level mostly a consequence of making poor decisions, auto intoxication, chemicals, ingesting pesticides, shooting up or inhaling poisons etc. Everyday, we have a choice to honor our Creator with what we eat, drink, say or do or NOT! Indeed it is true, we will reap in what manner that which we have sown.  Smoking ANYthing is harming your health and a fast track to trouble in the body.  Say this, "I WANNA Live!!!!  Let's stop deliberately poisoning ourselves with known carcinogens, neurotoxins and hormone disruptors and other immune system sabotaging deliveries all for a little buzz, jolt or escape that won't last. We gotta SAVE ourselves.


God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.....

There is Hope, Help and Healing in a recovery group that suits your area of need.

Find a support group now! You will find the beauty of God's world again and find life worth living. Surround yourself with people that have made it in recovery! The 12 Steps are God's Miracle for you! Get hooked into help. All that 'stuff'...Turn it over....We have to surrender to WIN!

Find a show on Radio Rehab
and get encouragement, strength and hope for right this minute!
Save this site for a favorite and keep coming back! You'll LOVE this! Hosted by BryanD a friend of the fallen.............

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FEELING OVERWHELMED? HOPELESS?



God,
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is;
not as I would have it;
trusting that you will make all things right
if I surrender to your will;
so that I may be reasonable happy in this life
and supremely happy with you forever in the next.
amen
reinhold niebuhr