Post
114
RESOLUTIONS … RESTORATION!!
Hopefully, you have read Post 113 and are now
smoothly living your new year’s resolutions,
goals, aspirations, and growth-steps.
Well, perhaps, not always smoothly
… but at least you may be experiencing and appreciating fresh thoughts, ideas,
and – yes – attempts to turn specified goals into the norm within your world. Last
month, Bob H. suggested and encouraged ways to make recovery work stick … and
grow. Imagine how eleven months from now life will look, feel, and be like if his recommendations were
to be taken seriously – and followed.
February’s Post adds to this. Sherrie H., Bob’s wife, shares her thoughts
on the greatest resource necessary
to stay on and travel the road to
recovery. Notice how she personally fortifies
our need for a Higher Power. Not a sequel … Post 114 is part and parcel to January’s suggestions in
continuing to keep your recovery journey going and growing.
Thank you, Sherrie for sharing your thoughts and
experiences! Welcome to the GRM Blog!
“Came to believe
that a power greater than myself could restore
me
to a better way of
thinking and living.”
(inspired
by Step 2 of Gam-Anon: www.gam-anon.org)
By
Sherrie H., 19 year member of Toledo, Ohio Gam-Anon
Step 2 from the Gam-Anon combo book is a lifesaving
concept. In Gam-Anon meetings, we would
go through a different step each month, and February meetings were usually
devoted to Step 2.
February would come and I was always saying to
myself that I was still working on Step 1. Then after several years, Step 2
began to seem like where my thoughts were always leading. What a great relief
it was to believe what Step 2 had to say. What
a wonderful realization that God (my Higher Power) cared for me. God cared
for me and wanted me to depend on him.
He knew my struggles; my disappointments; my sense of being stuck on
Step 1. Step 2 became my way out.
Step 2 is an ah-ha moment. It’s an epiphany moment.
Thinking about and holding space for Step 2 in my life helped me to move on in
my recovery. It brings me comfort and,
of course, a sense of direction. The entire statement of Step 2 leads me out
of myself. It makes me look up. It focuses me toward the future.
I thank God for Epiphany, the season, and for Step
2. I hope you too find time for Step 2.
I hope you too find time this month to work again on Step 2, and allow God to
change your beliefs about what he can do for you. Be open and allow him to do
it. We
all deserve a better way of thinking and living. Remember to be good to yourself. And remember that recovery is a joyous journey of learning; self-realization; and genuine
self-fulfillment.
So travel on my friends in recovery. Travel
on!
Once again, may
each of the 300-plus days to come find you uniquely experiencing this new year,
one-day-at-a-time and with your Higher Power to guide, encourage, and teach you!
Blessings,
Rev. Janet Jacobs,
CCGSO
Founding Director
Gambling Recovery
Ministries
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