Wisdom from the big books....
Perhaps not what you think. A conversation with a friend tonight prompted me to pull a familiar book off the shelf. Yes, I have an Alcoholics Anonymous book which I have read and re-read, highlighted, marked, and gained insight into myself after I shut it's cover. Early on...before I even stepped foot on a treadmill I was attending an addiction recovery group based on the principles in that book. I would sit in an old Presbyterian church in Halifax with people from all walks of life and say I was addicted to food and admit that I was trying desperately to fix an "illness" within me that could only be conquered by a spiritual experience. It was that book and those early groups that turned me to God for help in recovering from my path of self-destruction.
I literally turned the control of my life over to God.....and am ever so grateful that I did. I am nervous about the next phase of my life. It is hugely unknown, and therefore a bit scary for me. However, I know that the same "higher power" that began to work in my life all those years ago in that little church has guided me to this point and will not leave me now. I have to remember that and keep my eyes forward. That message is clear in many instances.
"God will constantly disclose more to you. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others." AA Book, pg 164
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he will direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
GULP! Here is to trusting.......even when I can only see the step I am just about take.
I literally turned the control of my life over to God.....and am ever so grateful that I did. I am nervous about the next phase of my life. It is hugely unknown, and therefore a bit scary for me. However, I know that the same "higher power" that began to work in my life all those years ago in that little church has guided me to this point and will not leave me now. I have to remember that and keep my eyes forward. That message is clear in many instances.
"God will constantly disclose more to you. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others." AA Book, pg 164
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he will direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
GULP! Here is to trusting.......even when I can only see the step I am just about take.
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