"Helping Slippers" - Cyber Recovery Social Network Forums

*janbear* · 06-13-2006, 05:29 PM

Why do they have to suffer? Why is it that we have found and accepted this fellowship while some people seem unable to or else must experience untold hardships before they can accept it? Many times our hearts have ached at the seeming failure of Twelth Step work.

We watch others suffer needlessly and sometimes die. We watch others repeatedly slip and our hearts cry out to them. Those of us who make it must never give up on the ones who don't. They need us desperately and we need them. Even if they truly can't make it, God still loves them.

Do I leave the results of my Twelfth step work with my Higher Power?

-Day by Day

free2bunme · 06-13-2006, 06:11 PM

this is a good message for me to read right now. i am a little bit nervous, as i am meeting a friend who has been a chronic slipper before tonight's meeting for coffee. he is just out from a six month stint in rehab, his 3rd time. he has been in and out of the program for years and has never gained more than 7 months freedom from his addiction to crack. in all honesty, i don't fully believe that he will make it. but i feel like i need to act as if i do.

06-13-2006, 05:29 PM	#1
janbear willing servant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 14,175	"Helping Slippers" Why do they have to suffer? Why is it that we have found and accepted this fellowship while some people seem unable to or else must experience untold hardships before they can accept it? Many times our hearts have ached at the seeming failure of Twelth Step work. We watch others suffer needlessly and sometimes die. We watch others repeatedly slip and our hearts cry out to them. Those of us who make it must never give up on the ones who don't. They need us desperately and we need them. Even if they truly can't make it, God still loves them. Do I leave the results of my Twelfth step work with my Higher Power? -Day by Day __________________ And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

06-13-2006, 06:11 PM	#2
free2bunme Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 1,542	this is a good message for me to read right now. i am a little bit nervous, as i am meeting a friend who has been a chronic slipper before tonight's meeting for coffee. he is just out from a six month stint in rehab, his 3rd time. he has been in and out of the program for years and has never gained more than 7 months freedom from his addiction to crack. in all honesty, i don't fully believe that he will make it. but i feel like i need to act as if i do. __________________ The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. e.e. cummings When sleeping women wake, mountains move. Chinese Proverb Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot Let nothing upset you, Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all needs. Saint Teresa of Avila

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