It seems like all of my life I have been hearing “You Gotta do this” “You have to do that in order to …” When I hear that I Gots to do something or I have to do something, I instinctively pull back and maybe even rebel. I have had more than one instance happening where, when I got out of a situation, I thought “Why am I even alive?” I even laughed at the thought of probabaly living on borrowed time. Here we learn how to gets to, not gots to.
I have heard, probably most of my life, “You gotta do this, you gotta do that, you have to do this or that.” Even in AA I hear “You have to do this or that or you will get drunk.” When I hear that I Gots to do something, my ears get turned off and my mouth gets turned on. I am one of the fortunate members of this organization who has had more than one instance happening where, when I got out of a situation, I wondered how i had survived. We used to say we were living on borrowed time.
If I didn’t drink or drug today and am working my Program to the best of my ability, I have choices. Maybe for the first time in my life I really can choose. When in the madness, I was like an actor in a tightly scripted play. Every thought and action was preordained. Everyone know how to push my buttons and pull my strings. I had no real choices when my choice was drinking. I have a choice today in everything, and am not put into a situation where I MUST do something. When I think of whatever challenges that I may have today, I quickly know that I am truly blessed to be able to CHOOSE what to do or not do. It is all about semantics, but then so is much of life itself.
Now that I actually have choices, I MAY do something not HAVE to do something. Whenever I reach of of life’s crossroads, I simply use the shortened version of the 3rd Step by saying “God help me.” Then I get out of His way and let Him. When I CHOOSE to go into a venture with a positive attitude, I am assured that the right thing is going to happen. It may not be something that pleases me but it will be the right thing for the occasion. When I CHOOSE to enter a venture with a negative attitude, I usually find that if something can go wrong, it will. Attitude is not a large part of anything. It is ALL of anything. What I put into life is what I get out of it. The Law of Attraction and the Mirror of Life tells us this. So, please choose wisely! God bless you!
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