Monday, August 13, 2012

Monday Morning.

My entire family and everyone I know is filled with pain and joy these days.  Oh how nice it would be if we could all be on the same ride sometimes.  Several young women that I know and love are struggling in their marriages in that secret hell that only women in their 20's can endure.  Good or bad it's just never what they expected.  Any kind of fulfillment at that age is so illusive.

I am finding discontent myself these days in areas that I thought I had come to terms with long ago.  Solitude feels wonderful.....until it doesn't.

I met a lovely young women at her first meeting last night.  "I don't want to get high but I'm still getting high?"  I never get tired of talking about powerlessness to new comers. 

I made 3 miles on my walk yesterday, in 45 minutes.  I could have gone a little longer but the bottom of my feet started feeling like sandpaper (?)

I went to two meetings this weekend that were gloom and doom.  "Just hold on."  "Just keep coming back."  Good grief.  There is so much joy in sobriety and I need to be at meetings where the "JOY" message is shouted to the newcomer. 

Enjoy your Monday.

9 comments:

Mary Christine said...

Congrats on the 3 miles in 45 minutes. That's a good pace! Re: the sandpaper: Do you have good socks and shoes?

"just keep coming back" is the single most stupid thing we say.

Mary LA said...

A little Joy! on Monday sounds good to me!

Annette said...

MC....LOL

Wow Pam, 3 miles in 45 minutes is great! I wish you and I could walk together sometime. I think we would laugh so much, it might slow our pace down a bit, but it would be worth it. :o) Our precious families...so hard to watch while everyone finds their way. I do get to just keep loving them all though and that is my gift to myself. Its what I get to *do* because I need to be *doing* something.

Syd said...

Sometimes I wish the trite cliche expression would be gone from the program. But then, the newcomer hasn't heard them so to them, Keep Coming Back may be the thing that each needs to hear. I try to vary it by saying I'm glad that you are here.

dAAve said...

Well, I must throw in my 2 cents.

If I had not heard "keep coming back" and "don't give up 5 minutes before the miracle" during my first 3 months of meetings (while still drinking) I would definitely have given up. I think I'd be dead now.
So, while some may think it's a bad slogan, it works for some of us.

Jess Mistress of Mischief said...

It seems I live in 'just hold on' a lot lately. Sometimes the hills and mountains we climb to learn more about God ... well they just suck that's all. Good thing joy kinda creeps in between the suck points.

CarlyR said...

I'm working toward thirty days sitting in the chair, and I need to hear "Keep Coming Back." Not sure about other newbies, but every morning I am anxious, unsure, and take things too personally. So, yes, there is a place for the trite welcome....

luluberoo said...

I have been wanting to come by here for two days--15 minute miles are *excellent*. You are burning approx 100 calories a mile also. But forget about the calories. Walking that much most days of the week will improve your heart, lungs, brain cells, muscles, and your TUSH.

Can you tell I'm really, really excited??

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