Have Patience

[MajestyJo]

When I first came into recovery, I went to a lot of meetings and when ever they asked for a topic, I requested patience, acceptance, and tolerance. I was living with my aunt who had never married, and was very set in her ways and didn't like me to be out past 9 a.m. I had to recognize that I had made the decisions to put myself there, she had a heart of gold, and was doing the best she could. I figured if I was having a difficult time, she was too. It got to where she came to me and asked me for one of my hugs.

As they say, if you pray and ask for patience, you get things you have to learn to tolerate, to practice your patience on. I was quite hyper, and to slow myself down, I would push the button on the automatic doors, to slow me down, without barrelling my way through them. It was difficult to just be and wait, just wasn't my style. As my sponsor kept saying, "It is a program of practice, practice, practice.

I was also told to count to 10 or if things were really bad, count BACKWARD from 100.