Depend on It

But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us, loss of our health, our jobs, our money, and our homes, we still stuck to it and depended on it. ~ Anonymous. Twenty Four Hours A Day: Meditations (p. 17). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Why would it be a struggle in Recovery
to learn to depend on our Higher Power?
Did we not all come to these rooms
with a long history of depending
on a different higher power?
Before we got here, we put our addictions
in a place of supreme importance.
We know that now but most of us did not see it then.
What else was more important?
Your fear, your embarrassment?
Your need to be loved?
We all have higher powers
and the early ones remain, at least for a while.
The question is, which is the higher higher power,
what is most important?
If you can say that your spouse,
your child, your dog, your day off,
your vacation, your job, your house...
if anything has greater importance for you
than God as you understand God,
then God is your second, third, eighth or twelfth
higher but YOUR HIGHER POWER!
So, find your higher power and depend on it!