Drinking frequency

Drank everyday, once a week, once in awhile and thought I could quit whenever I wanted to.  That day never came.  It wasn't how often I drank but how much I drank and how much I thought about drinking.    

The final attempt

When all was lost.  When everything had been attempted.  When alcohol had me down.  When I could actually see death I finally turned to prayer.  A small, personal, informal, very quiet conference with God that proved to be a powerful life changing moment in my life.

Oxymorons

Jumbo shrimp, fire water, damp dry, just friends, DRINK RESPONSIBLY. 

Nothing more to add

Drink less, pray more, enough said!

Holiday cheer

For many years the holidays were all about getting drunk.  To me it used to be the reason for the season.  But sobriety has blessed me with a wonderful family.  And that is the best reason of all.

The daily grind

Life has been very busy as of late.  Sobriety has a way of doing that.  Recovery is what takes you to sobriety and no one knows more about recovery than God.  Find him while on your knees!

HAPPY VETERANS DAY!

Thank you to those who served!  Never, ever let alcohol get in the way of everything you fought so hard to preserve.   I unfortunately was unable to make a life for myself in the military.  I allowed alcohol to get in the way.  I gave alcohol complete authority over all of my affairs.  I drank until I dropped when I was in the Navy.  My drinking got so out of control that I was sent back stateside to a naval medical base in Philadelphia.  I was given a general discharge from the Navy after serving just fourteen months.  This is when I was only nineteen years old.  When I arrived unannounced at home and I was deeply saddened by the look of shame coming from my both of my parents faces.  Our relationship would never again be the same.
This unfortunately would just be the start of many disasters and setbacks caused by my unwillingness and inability to stop drinking.

A life dominated by drunkenness is a speeding automobile headed for a concrete wall.  Disaster and doom are certain.

Time

Recovery bought me time!  Time to develop much needed coping skills.  Time to get my health back.  Time to build strength, courage and confidence.  Time to examine the wreckage of my past.  Time to mend broken hearts.  Time to get acquainted with myself.  Time to cry.  Time to heal.  Time to listen, understand and pray.  Time enough to do the right thing in a patient manner in order to complete the journey all the way to sobriety.    

Life happens

Life happens when your wasted.  Get sober and find out what all the fuss is about!

That's just the way it is

My best day as a drunk is no where near as good as my worst day sober.

Say what?

The sober I get the less drunk you become! 

Responsibility

For many of us it is not our fault that we drink the way we do.  It is however our responsibility to seek out some type of help and healing that will take us away from the bottle for good.  Our alcoholism will never go away.  What suddenly disappears is time, talent, health, friends, family, opportunity and eventually life itself. 

Get moving towards the sober side of alcoholism now!

A starting point

We all need to start our journey in recovery somewhere.  Drunkenness is not the common cold.  It just won't go away on it's own.  My journey started when I was finally able to be honest with myself.  Telling myself the truth was all I needed to jump start my recovery.  I had to see myself as others had seen me for years.  The next thing I had to do was take action and get into some type of daily recovery program.  I had to take all of that new found honesty and share it with others who were a lot like me.  And the final part of the process was to go to God and ask Him to give me the courage to start this journey, work it one day at a time and see it through no matter how long it took.

T'is the season...

T'is the season to be jolly!!  With the holiday season quickly approaching I find that I have more jolly without the bottle than I ever had with it.

Get some jolly in your life.  GET INTO RECOVERY MODE RIGHT NOW!!  I am praying for you.

Problems

Sobriety has been good to me!  I have a house that is drafty.  A 130 lb. dog that sheds.  Cats that meow all night.  Children who are too rough with the cats.  A wife who is a bit too sloppy.  Noisy neighbors and a car that constantly breaks down.

Yes, sobriety sure has been good to me.  I would not trade in that dog, those cats, my kids or wife or even my neighbors or car for anything in the world.   These are things that define me.  These are the areas of my life that did not exist when alcohol dominated my world.

When alcohol was in charge all of my possessions easily fit into a medium size gym bag.  There was no car, no drivers license, no wife, no kids, no bank account, no nothing.  My life was a nightmare and it was going no where. 

It is true I do have some problems.  I have areas in my life that are not perfect.  But those areas have taken the place of what once was a miserable, empty, cold, evil existence that followed a path carved by a daily dependence on alcohol. 

Give me sobriety and it's challenges any day!