HUMILITY
June 2, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader
“True humility is the willingness to seek and do God’s will with our best effort.” BRB p.223
“In ACA, we move from wanting and being willing to actually finding the passion that begins our journey into recovery. We look for that passion because without it we merely talk recovery, we do not live it.
We look past our desire to heal ourselves and we develop the humility needed to seek our Higher Power’s will for us. With that humility, we surrender ourselves to the spiritual seed that’s blossoming inside of us. We move toward that essence, and the closer we get, the more in touch we are with our own spiritual being. We begin to live in the present.
And in that now, we see the world differently. We notice the spiritual essence in others and the beauty around us. We begin to feel the peace. We begin to shed our past, including the person we thought we were, and we are at peace with the stillness. Further down the path, we realize that the stillness is our Higher Power working inside us.
On this day I seek the humility needed to accept my Higher Power’s will, knowing that it is the basis for my journey to recovery. The miracle of ACA has begun.”
My Experience:
You are first asked to recognize that you were powerless, and then asked to come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We are further humbled when we are asked to surrender to this Higher Power. Knowing that there is someone, whom you define, walking with you and has the ability to take on the stress of the problem and help you through them is very humbling, but ultimately very comforting. If you are anything like me, someone that had huge control issues, this is a struggle but as you keep reminding yourself to turn things over to your Higher Power and you begin to see that the issues are being appropriately dealt with you start to become more comfortable releasing subsequent things to your Higher Power. What a huge relief this is!!
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