- Oct 25, 2024
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October 30th of 2019 was when I had my last drink. When I entered college I did Al-Anon for 6 months but it caused me to place the blame on others and not look at my own problems. Through becoming a convinced Christian, I got sober. But I lacked something; I was still resentful, easy to get angry, and slow to forgive. I landed in Celebrate Recovery for a year and its a great program. Not everyone in the room has the same issue so it was nice to learn from everyone there. The only Higher Power allowed was Jesus Christ which is obviously not an issue for me but I felt some people were trying to get me to hop over to their respective church when I am perfectly fine doing my own thing. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is my savior. I then went on a Matt Talbot Retreat and loved it; This started pushing me to go to AA meetings. I started seriously reading The Big Book and The Twelve and Twelve and I also bought tons of books on AA history. What I have discovered, and this is going to be a controversial statement (but that's ok), is that my own personal recovery is not about going to meetings once a day, three times a week, or even once a week; Part of this is my work schedule and am currently trying to find the right meeting to attend that fits it. I have to get back in the habit of going. Regardless I have discovered that if I talk with God in the morning, go about my day trying to be of service to my fellow man, and ask for God's help with reviewing my day at night then I'll stay sober, happy, joyous, and free.
