Showing posts with label Breaking Free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breaking Free. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Cheers to New Addictions

Here's to new addictions -
may all addicts find a worthier love
to fill the hunger in our hearts.
May the longing in our souls
find a better source of sustenance
than the poison of demon drugs.
May the storm and the struggle abate
as we let recovery take its hold
and give serenity a chance.

We have not come this far to forget
but to remember what's worth living for,
so may we know to always remember
the true value our relationships
and be brave enough now
to address the healing of past hurts.

So here's to family and to old flames -
may God bless each our families
and may His grace keep us together.
May old flames never die,
only the pain of days gone by.

Here's to old friends and to new ones,
may old friendships remain ever new
and may new ones feel as old ones do
as if they've always been -
full for forever.
---<--@


Recovery is a return to promise.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Breaking Free

This work is dedicated to all suffering addicts and alcoholics:

THIS ADDICTION

has power over me no more.

It has power only over those
who believe in
the lie.

This addiction has lied to me,
my family, and my friends,
right from the very beginning.

It has nearly destroyed me.

It has harmed those
whom I hold dear to my heart
who hold me dear to theirs.

Therefore, I no longer believe in
the lie.
I can neither trust nor tolerate it:

I cast it away from myself!

The first choice is the wrong choice.

All the choices after that
is the choice of the addiction.

Therefore ---

The next choice I must make
is the one choice I must take
toward the road to freedom.

All the choices after this
are steps that take me there,
far away from here,
far away from the addiction,
far away from
the lie
that sought to extinguish
my promise and my life.

The road exists even should I fall
because the road exists for me.

The road exists so long as I believe
that time will take me there
and truth will set me free.

So help me God,
So help me God.
---<--@


So, my friends, let us together say:

"V R S N S M V - S M Q L I V B" meaning "
Vade retro Satana! Nunquam suade mihi vana! Sunt mala quae libas. Ipse venena bibas!"

Begone Satan! Never tempt me with your vanities! What you offer me is evil. Drink the poison yourself!