Hold Your Tongue

[MajestyJo]

That is good and I do too, that is why I don't respond to the readings and don't often respond to the spiritual meditations. I respond to what speaks to me. This is where I get the food for my recovery. You are fortunate to have a car and able to get to meetings and I am not able to.

It is my opinion that recovery is about sharing and caring, with another alcoholic and addict, and I would hate to think that someone would pick up and go back out because I didn't open my mouth. But then I wouldn't like someone to leave the site because they think I have a big mouth.

There would be no reason to come to this site if I could not share. That is why I come. I don't come here to read, I have my own recovery books, some of which I post here.

Just copying and pasting is not sharing. If I don't read and share, it makes a big difference in my life if I don't.

As a long time friend use to say, he totally annoyed me, "Take the cotton batten out of your ears and put it in your mouth." I later found out that he was going to the wash room and taking a few swigs out of a mickey during cigarette break. Ironically, it was many years later, he was clean and sober, and I was going through a rough patch, he said those words, and I need to hear them.

If I couldn't share here, I would stop coming to the site. There would be no reason to come here. Not just to share myself, but to read the sharing of others. We have a disease of perception. What we get out of a reading and what someone else gets out of it could be completely different. It doesn't mean someone is wrong, it just means that there is a wider view and perspective on the topic than we knew and we need to keep an open mind.