We Do Recover

[MajestyJo]

WE CAN HANDLE ALL THAT COMES TO US

We are never divorced from our past - we are in company with it forever, and it acquaints us with the present. Our responses today reflect our experiences yesterday. And these roots lie in the past. We look at the past, check that which appears to be negative and mentally correct it by handling it in our mind as we would now. Then release it and begin again fresh and new. Everyday is offering us preparation for the future, for lessons to come, without which we'd not offer our full measures to the design which contains the development of all of us. Our experiences, past and present are not coincidental. We will be introduced to those experiences that are consistent with our talents and the right lessons designated for the part we are requested to play in life. We can remember that no experiences will attract us that are beyond our capabilities to handle.

PEARL S. BUCK wrote, "One faces the future with one's past."

Are you able to recognize situations in your past and mentally correct them now?

- Antestian Newsletter

Recognizing old pattern and behaviors which no longer serve me in today were hared to identify. They were comfortable. I didn't like change. I liked the familiar. I didn't want to take risks. I didn't want to allow myself to become vulnerable.

I often wondered why I went through the experiences that I did. I came to believe and realize that I had to go through them to become the person I am today. I am able to share with others and hopefully find some compassion and understanding about where they are coming from. I had to learn this for myself. I can't give away what I don't have.

"If my God brings me to it, He will see me through it." Even if I go there in my own willfulness, He will bring me back to where I need to be if and when I ask for His help. Often He has made me revisit situations until I got the message and was willing to make them right.

PEARL S. BUCK wrote, "One faces the future with one's past."


Hopefully, we have learned from our past and are better equipped to handle things in our present, so we don't make the same mistakes that we made in our past. I found myself often in the same situations, but I was able to identify them, and thanks to the program, take the steps to get out, change direction, or not go there if I found myself heading on the wrong path.

It is whatever works for us. We hear many things in the rooms of recovery, some work for others but not for me and things that I do, doesn't work for someone else. It is about finding our program.

It is a 'we' program, and by listening and sharing (we can hear out own thoughts when we speak them and can see where we are at in today), we learn and hopefully grow, one day at a time.

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