When We Were Frustrated, Even In Part, We Drank For Oblivion

The title of today’s Daily Reflection is Pride. Without going into detail, this reading is very appropriate for me right now! I really like what it says because it truly nails the subject and transcends pitiful and pathetic injustices.

“For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted.

In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility. We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.”

The person in our literature who was allowed to respond to this says;

“I understood my shortcomings: I constantly put tasks off; I angered easily; I felt too much self-pity; and I thought, why me? Then I remembered, ‘Pride goeth before the fall,’ and I eliminated pride from my life.”

To those who perpetrate injustice upon me and other human beings, know this and hear it loud and clear! There is a God! And you aren’t it! That God brings all things full circle and what you have wrought upon others will be, in turn, wrought upon you. May He show you mercy in your suffering…

And to all my friends in recovery please know and understand that injustices brought upon us need not be used as excuses to kill ourselves by whatever addiction we might have! If God is for us, who can be against us? No one…