Wisdom Of The Rooms - 2020

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June 22

Quote of the Week

"I can prove the world is a miserable place."

As I approached my bottom, I perfected the art of negative thinking. Fueled by the disease of alcoholism, my mind searched for and found the reason my life sucked, and then proved to me that it was never going to get better. It then went on to confirm why the whole world was such a miserable place, what with the wars, the suffering children, the crooked politicians, special-interest groups, and more. At the end of my drinking, it didn’t matter if I lived or escaped the whole mess.

I didn’t have much hope that sobriety would change my life for the better. I thought that even if I did manage to stay sober, I would still have all my problems, the world would still be a mess, and I still had more proof of the negative than the positive. I acquired some invaluable tools, though, as I began working the Steps. I learned to focus on just today, just this moment, and to stay out of the future. I learned to be a positive influence in the lives of others by helping them and giving of myself. And most of all, I learned how to develop a relationship with a Higher Power.

Fast-forward now to many years of recovery. The world is still a mess, I still have problems in my life, but something has changed—and the change is within me. Today, my internal landscape is based on the spiritual ideals of the Twelve Steps, and today, I seek to be a channel of God’s grace. Today, I look for the good in people, places, and things, and because of that, I have a choice of what kind of proof I gather—and I know that there is plenty of good in the world as long as I’m willing to recognize it.