12/13/2023 0 Comments 12 step recovery program gambling![]() ![]() ![]() My gambling compulsion is threefold in that it affects me physically, mentally, and spiritually. May I learn the balance of soul that comes through keeping close to God. Let me breathe the blessings of each new day for itself, by itself, and keep my human burdens contained in daily perspective. Let me carry only the weight of twenty-four hours at one time, without the extra bulk of yesterday’s regrets or tomorrow’s anxieties. To me, Walt Whitman once wrote, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Worse yet, many of my waking hours were spent clearing away the wreckage of the future. I often became obsessed with things that happened yesterday, last week, or even five years ago. Instead, may each single day in each New Year be freshened by my new-found hope.īefore I came to the Gamblers Anonymous Program, I hadn’t the faintest idea of what it was to Live in the Now. May I learn not to stamp my past mistakes with that indelible word, forever. Let me not weaken my resolve by stretching it to cover forever-or even one long year. My traditional New Year’s resolutions have been so grandly stated and so soon broken. May I set my goals for the New Year not at the year-long mark, but one day at a time. No wonder I rarely smiled and hardly ever laughed aloud. As a result, I lived a fantasy life in which happiness was all but nonexistent. I tried to take comfort in the forlorn hope that tomorrow would be different. Endless hours were spent rehashing old mistakes. In the old days, I saw everything in terms of forever. ![]()
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