I thought, how could I betray someone I love so much in that way? But I sat down in a chair and just listened. I felt like I was betraying my alcoholic loved one by walking into that meeting, as if I were labeling this individual as an alcoholic to the entire world. My situation had brought me there, whether I wanted to be there or not. Walking through the door to my first Al‑Anon meeting was probably one of the scariest, saddest, and most life-giving moments I have ever experienced. These people didn’t even know me, or so I thought, but it turns out they did. ![]() I wondered how Al‑Anon was going to help me with what I was facing at home. I can step toward today with assurance, reaching out to others along the way, trusting that my accumulated steps add stability to my future. How free we are, today! Our choices are many. We can recognize their presence as parts of our whole, not all of it. They no longer need to darken all of a day, however. The fear and the dread are not gone completely. How different it is, for many of us, to look forward to today with secure anticipation, to trust in what the future holds! We can still remember, all too vividly perhaps, the darker periods in our lives, periods that seemed to hold no promise a time when we dreaded the future, fearing it would only compound those awful times. And it will offer us opportunities for personal growth and occasions to help another make progress on her path to the future. ![]() Today stands before us, ready for our involvement. To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.
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