I Greet The Indwelling Healer.
Today’s “Pay Forward” gift is – Dwell On This! “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver). If the heavy drinker has passed the invisible line into alcoholism, and he/she just stops drinking or doing drugs, most often they will become a “dry-drunk.” For those of us, who have passed through that part of the disease will testify that it’s a miserable existence for us and those around us. Plus, if the alcoholic or addict does not get to the cause and conditions of the disease, they are likely to switch to another addiction. A spiritual based recovery program, like Alcoholics Anonymous, which is based on Christian principles, continues to serve millions around the world, daily. These spiritual ways of life have generously shared with the many successful recovery programs. For a long-term solution, it must come from within, and it must be spiritual. Positive thinking is ok as a quick fix, too often it is no more than a tourniquet, stopping the bleeding. It doesn’t heal the cause of the wound; returning to our Creator’s Individually Divine Design will. “A.As’ Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink [and many other dis-eases of the human condition] and enable the suffer to become happily and usefully whole” Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Foreword. Thy Love, Thy Will be done.