Time is not our friend. Every day I am reminded how much the phrase “one day at a time means.” I personally know how fragile this life can be, one day your fine and the next day can be devastating. That’s why I find so much importance in trying to make that point to new people. I know just how reckless and indifferent we can make our lives. This is where living by the steps helps bring about changes that makes us realize how valuable and beautiful life can be. There were 2 people who gave me Light today by sharing a part of themselves with me. One was pretty much a stranger that I met in a grocery store, her cheerfulness and joy were a true beam of light, letting me know that Angels show up when see them fluttering around, distributing light through us by being able to take that short moment with each other. The other is a wonderful friend who has brought me great moments of reflective energy in the past 3 months, making more aware of how someone caring is important to daily health.
You may ask what does this have to do with sobriety, it has everything to do with it! Before I had become isolated behind a wall of indifference and indulgence, thinking only of self and having contempt for everything. The essence of step 12 which is love and service has made me completely change that attitude of indifference and learn to become a part of life, so I can have and enjoy the absolute beauty that lies within everyone of us that lets that beauty shine through the perfection of the image of the “ONE.” May God hold you and keep you in the arms of His/Her Light.
Peace Out: M copyright 2014

No matter how long we stay sober there are days and things that effect us on so many levels. These are the times that I must refer back to the basics and fundamental principles of the steps. I came in a very angry man, I was full of contempt of everything. The reading at the end of the spiritual experience was the first reading that caught my attention was the phrase mentioned “contempt prior to investigation” absolutely shocked me to the core. I knew and felt that it described me perfectly, I was closed to anything and everything except something that had to do with me.
Even though I live by the steps in my daily life there are moments of deep contempt, I just don’t like the world and people in it. I am so happy that I have tools to utilize on any given moment that can take me from contempt, to gratitude as soon as I work through those moments. I can’t express how freeing it is to know that there is a way to be free from the bondage anger.
Peace Out M copyright 2014