...In All Our Affairs, p.112, titled "Receiving My Higher Power's Help" is a gripping story of an untreated Alanon and how the progressive effects of alcoholism convinced her that her husband hated and despised her; she felt so alone and friendless; she spent months planning ways to kill him; she reached a point of insanity and decided the next time he came home he would find them all dead---their 3 children and her; decided she couldn't go on living with a man who hated her so much and couldn't let their children live in this cruel world without her; she mixed up poisoned milk shakes...GOD intervened and she knocked the drink out of the child's hand then poured the drinks out. Not long after this she jumped out of a train, ends up in a psychiatric hospital for 3 years where Alanon members met her, took her to meetings but she didn't go on her own, self-pity, later on her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer, finally she goes to Alanon on her own and is ready to work the program. "Sometimes I can revert to the old pattern but I have only to bring to mind one of the Alanon slogans, practice it, and my life returns to peace."
As We Understood..., p.185, "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end."
I've learned in this program to never spit up by looking down on a person for what all they've been through on their life's journey and to remember that there, but for the grace of GOD, go I.
Dear Sweet Lord GOD Almighty Creator, thank YOU for the abundance of miracles YOU bestow on us all on a daily basis. Thank YOU for the privilege of Life and the experiences of knowing YOUR Loving embrace. Lord, please help me be of service to YOU and my spiritual siblings and guide, support my efforts to live life on YOUR terms, as YOU Will, not mine. Love, Carol
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