WILLINGNESS TO GROW

If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on.
— AS BILL SEES IT, p. 8

Sobriety fills the painful "hole in the soul" that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my work is done. However, joy is not just the absence of pain; it is the gift of continued spiritual awakening. Joy comes from ongoing and active study, as well as application of the principles of recovery in my everyday life, and from sharing that experience with others. My Higher Power presents many opportunities for deeper spiritual awakening. I need only to bring into my recovery the willingness to grow. Today I am ready to grow.


Hi everyone Donna S alcoholic What a great reading!! i realized that willingness is something i so needed to further y journey  u see all thru out the big book the word willingness it was something i didn't have for a long time i wasn't willing to stop drinking or change or grow up
I wasn't willing to admit alcohol beat me down
but the day i finally said Yes i will willing i was able to start my journey from that  point then i became willing to believe in a Higher Power could restore me to sanity for me i had to study the big book, not just read it
I thought all i had to do was read it thru and i was done same with step book and other AA reading material there's more then just the big book alcoholics anonymous has many books out there and i have read them and studied some and continue to go thru them
there's a book meeting i went to on Sat here where we go thru different AA books i learned  lot from that meeting in doing all this i began to grow
 sure Ive hit hard times during the years Ive hit places in my journey that i thought is this all there is ???
 but i stuck with it and continue to go to meetings and review my day Ive had a lot joys in my journey i find that if i want to be miserable i am welcome to it
i don't want to be so i continue to be willing willing to got any length
 Life is   good : so i am going to keep coming  ☮😊   Done