When it is SO easy to know God's will.....
A lot of alcoholics may have dual-diagnosis with depression, anxiety or even bipolar disorder etc.
A lot of alcoholics may have experienced physical, emotional or even sexual abuse as children.
Not many alcoholics have co-morbidity with an anti-social personality disorder or are sociopaths.
Most alcoholics are decent people with a very serious problem/condition. Most alcoholics feel bad about how they are wasting their lives, actually ruining their lives and feel bad when their words and actions while drunk hurt other people.....
Step 11 in AA refers to the alcoholic praying to God for knowledge of His will for us.
How obvious is it that the will of God for any alcoholic must be for the alcoholic to stop drinking and stay sober for the rest of his or life !!
How could it be the will of God for any person to regularly drink too much, too often and to experience all the pain, humiliations and various problems that come about as a result of alcohol abuse ?
How could it be the will of God for any person to regularly cause sadness and even at times trauma in the lives of people close to them? And to often be a trouble-making nuisance in what ever community he or she lives ?
When an alcoholic stops drinking and stays sober he or she can have the truly GREAT feeling and the great knowledge that he or she is doing THE number 1 thing right in their life, in terms of what God's will is for them !!
For me, as the sober days build up, I can at times really feel GOOD inside knowing that today, and over the past month, the past year etc I have succeeded in doing right the number 1 thing in my life I must get right.
To repeat what I have written before on this blog, it is AMAZING how many good things happen in my life when I am sober long term !! One of the best things is feeling so GOOD inside at having the chance to live long term, day by day (not as a saint or perfect person) as a sane, sober, average, law-abiding person, who does not cause sadness and pain in the lives of people close to me and who does not regularly carry on like a stupid, crazy, drunken fool in the community in which I live. How GOOD it is to live a life where I neither hurt nor even annoy another person in any serious way AND how GOOD it is to be a person who can occasionally help and assist other people !!!
A lot of alcoholics may have experienced physical, emotional or even sexual abuse as children.
Not many alcoholics have co-morbidity with an anti-social personality disorder or are sociopaths.
Most alcoholics are decent people with a very serious problem/condition. Most alcoholics feel bad about how they are wasting their lives, actually ruining their lives and feel bad when their words and actions while drunk hurt other people.....
Step 11 in AA refers to the alcoholic praying to God for knowledge of His will for us.
How obvious is it that the will of God for any alcoholic must be for the alcoholic to stop drinking and stay sober for the rest of his or life !!
How could it be the will of God for any person to regularly drink too much, too often and to experience all the pain, humiliations and various problems that come about as a result of alcohol abuse ?
How could it be the will of God for any person to regularly cause sadness and even at times trauma in the lives of people close to them? And to often be a trouble-making nuisance in what ever community he or she lives ?
When an alcoholic stops drinking and stays sober he or she can have the truly GREAT feeling and the great knowledge that he or she is doing THE number 1 thing right in their life, in terms of what God's will is for them !!
For me, as the sober days build up, I can at times really feel GOOD inside knowing that today, and over the past month, the past year etc I have succeeded in doing right the number 1 thing in my life I must get right.
To repeat what I have written before on this blog, it is AMAZING how many good things happen in my life when I am sober long term !! One of the best things is feeling so GOOD inside at having the chance to live long term, day by day (not as a saint or perfect person) as a sane, sober, average, law-abiding person, who does not cause sadness and pain in the lives of people close to me and who does not regularly carry on like a stupid, crazy, drunken fool in the community in which I live. How GOOD it is to live a life where I neither hurt nor even annoy another person in any serious way AND how GOOD it is to be a person who can occasionally help and assist other people !!!
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