THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
Feb 8, 10- (by Steve E.)
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Winter will soon be but a memory…WHAT a memory! Having lived in Naples, Florida 45 years, I can tell you, yes, I still remember. Even now, when I allow a thought of those 32 years I spent in Cincinnati to live a moment with me–I can “feel” my fingers frozen, my body shaking with the cold. And I might be exaggerating here, but I seem to recall being often in a gloomy or semi state of depression–the SO many overcast days of bleakness.
It is sort of like having been alive on December 7, 1941– Pearl Harbor–you can never forget the shocking realization that not just the rest of the world, but we–US– were also now at war.
Amazing what my (and your) memories bring to me. Usually I tend to recall the “good” which happened and forget, or deny the “bad. This is why in Alcoholics Anonymous I worked the fourth and fifth Steps–to recall for myself one last time all the crap of those drinking years, and before, and after.
READ THIS…and then I came across this writing which brought me to understand how I was brought through those final years in alcoholic and pill-hell, when chaos reigned:
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was only one set.
“Hey God, You promised me that you would walk with me. But I have noticed that occasionally there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
God then said to me, “Steve, those times when you have seen only one set of footprints are when I just could not stand your attitude of negativity and self-pity…and so I just got outta there.” LOL!
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING VALENTINE’S DAY!
My father was deaf and blind, and one VALENTINE’S DAY he asked a farmer friend, one of those old Norwegian bachelor guys to buy some flowers and candy for my crippled mother, who he loved very much. The note inside read: FOR MY GOOD FRIEND! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
(….my mother’s birthday was in September)
Peeps, today–ENJOY IT ALL!
And with me, please SMILE today!
And stay CLEAN and SOBER with me today!
And LIVE and LOVE today! I will!
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thanks for the post. I like ‘footprints in the sand,’ and I used to live in the northeast and remember that gloomy long winter. And I also remember the 4th and 5th steps of saying goodbye to things
thanks for the upbeat post. i also love this version of Footprints