Owning Our Power

Yes, admitting and accepting powerlessness is important. But that is a first step, an introduction to this business of recovery. Later, comes owning our power. Changing what we can. This is as important as admitting and accepting powerlessness. ~ Beattie, Melody. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 209). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.

If we admit we are powerless,
throw in the towel and surrender,
turn it all over to our Higher Power,
we who tend to be codependent
have merely switched our doting attention,
substituted our emotional and behavioral condition
of “relationship addiction” to looking
to our Higher Power to being subservient.
Our Power does have the power,
but we're not dismissed. We have value
and we have a role...accepting
what we can't change, seeking courage
to change what we can...ourselves...
and seeking Power's guidance
in the classification. We have the right
to feel our feelings, recognize we have them,
and regain contact with our own
needs, desires, and sense of self.
Admitting we are powerless
empowers us to live
under the protective watch
of the real Power.