Responding to Response

January 25

 

Responding to Response

 

Thankfully I’m not in charge of what is so freely given in
this program. I want it to be available, but I want gratitude to be the
universal response.  At first I thought I
couldn’t understand how anyone could hold this gift in their hands and not feel
grateful, truth is I know exactly how that’s done and I don’t want to look at
that ugly thing.  “Cunning, Baffling,
Powerful” But they left out how repulsive it is, maybe they didn’t want to see
it either, or thought it was self-explanatory.

No matter which, I’m glad I am not the arbiter of the
flowing fount that is recovery, I might have been tempted to cap and meter it,
killing all the beauty and wild randomness that makes it real and true.  I despair that others don’t recover as I
recover and yet I am relieved that I didn’t have to drink as they drank. 

I have to see those around me well enough to stay out of
their traps or follow their leads, whichever is appropriate, but I don’t have
to adjudicate their reply.

 

Pick up sticks and
put downs stones

Vlog:  http://youtu.be/wtyMBLUK_vw

 

You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to
Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault

http://www.amazon.com/More-Sober-The-Way-Sane/dp/144141231X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374072329&sr=8-3&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane

http://www.amazon.com/Lines-My-Life-Sherrie-Theriault/dp/1448652820/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374072576&sr=1-1&keywords=Lines+from+my+life%2C+Sherrie+theriault