Letting the Good Stuff Happen

 

Before recovery, my relationships were lousy. I didn't very well on my job. I was enmeshed in my dysfunctional family. But at least I knew what to expect!

---- Anonymous

I want the second half of my life to be as good as the first half was miserable. Sometimes, I'm afraid it won't be. Sometimes, I'm frightened it might be.

  In some ways, good changes can be more frightening than the hard time.
 The past may have become comfortable familiar. Our relationships were repeats of the same pattern--the same behaviors, the same pain, over and over again.They
may not have been what we wanted, but we knew what was going to happen.

 This is not so when we begin recovering. Then things change. And the further we progress in this miraculous program, the more we and our circumstances change.

We begin to explore uncharted territory. We begin to become successful in love, in work, in life. One day at a time, the good stuff begins to happen and the

misery dissipates. We no longer want to be a victim of life. We've learned to avoid unnecessary crisis and trauma. Life gets good.

   "How do I handle the good stuff?" asked one women. "It's harder and more foreign than the pain and tragedy."

   "the same way we handled the difficult and the painful experiences," I replied. " One day at a time."

                 Today, God, help me let go of my need to be in pain and crisis.
                    Help me move as swiftly possible through
                           sad feelings and problems. Help me find my base

                  and balance in peace, joy, and gratitude. Help me work as
              hard at accepting what's good as I have worked in the past
                       at accepting the painful and the difficult.