Mr. SponsorPants

those who are hardest to love

 

 

 

Shooters -- quick shots from meetings: Not much good

 

 

"It's not much good being in a 12 Step Program

if you're not actually working the 12 Steps."

 

still clumsy on the little touchscreen keypad

 

 

 

I was texting a sponsee and my fingers, clumsy still on the little touchscreen keypad, missed a letter.

I'd meant to type:  "It's all good."

But instead I typed:  "It's all god."

I thought for a moment and shrugged.

Either one, right?

 

 

Be Kind

 

 

(But sometimes they make it very, very hard to remember that.)

 

 

sleeping monsters

 

 

 

Some monsters I've been able to evict.

A few I've tamed.

The rest I work hard to keep asleep.

 

Alcoholics Anonymous.

It's like a daily lullabye

for the monsters in my head.

it's called "making amends"

 

 

It's true.

 

 

The Art of Being Happy

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, that's not right at all.

Well, I mean it is, in general of course; but for me the art of being happy lies in finding the opportunity to be of service in every situation -- to approach every person, place or thing with an attitude of "What can I bring to this, what can I contribute, what can I give?" as opposed to "What am I going to get out of this?" and the ever popular "Where's mine?"*

That, and gratitude.

For me that's where the art of being happy lies. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*And it strikes me, as I write the above, that the "take" attitude is one sourced ultimately in Fear, while the "giving" attitude springs from Love in some form -- or at least a willingness to act in a loving way -- and doesn't that also speak to a Universal Truth of sorts?

 

 

the attitude you bring to life

 

 

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

 

-- Kahlil Gibran

 

I cannot begin to express how true I have found this to be in the past few weeks.

Six smart words from Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

someone out there

 

 

 

and in my experience, I've often found them at a meeting...

but it's important to add, that I've never found them

by sitting at home, alone,

isolating,

obsessing,

bathing in self pity

and not answering the phone.

(as much fun as that can be sometimes.)