"If you want what WE have you must DO what we do"
This is the message I've received since day one in Al-Anon. If I see someone with serenity, peace...I must find out what they do to achieve it then I do the same. No if's, and's or but's about it. Like Nike says.."Just do it!".
So Saturday Frank says to me "I am having a delicious experience in disorganization and I love it!". Wow...anything that's spiritual AND delicious I wanna know about it. So I told him to call me with the details so I can feel it too. Later he calls and tells me how free he is feeling, in a state of detachment. A feeling of having "let go". Damn sir, I LOVE that feeling so gimme some of that, please! So he tells me how fabulous he is feeling and I gotta ask "What have you done to get this awesome deliciousness?'.
He replies "Ecclesiastes, I'm reading Ecclesiastes". Well....the bible, huh, I think. Then I think again..."OK, I can do that". My beloved friend Frank is a devout Catholic but so tame about it, he makes my reconsidering Catholicism an option. I grew up catholic but cast it aside when I so fervently disagreed with their views on important issues. So I found my God through the secular world of 12 step rooms. For the last year, he has been sharing with me in a gentle way what Catholicism is to him and how to interpret the bible. So now my mind is open and I'm gonna read Ecclesiastes!! Because.....
I want what he has and I'm willing to do what he does because I have learned how to listen to my teachers.
At least for today. You know how that goes. Tomorrow I may be back up a tree without a God.
Does God live in trees?
2 comments:
What's he doing reading the bible if he's Catholic? I've always told my protestant scripture quoting friends, "Us Catholics don't have to read the bible, we just believe what the priest says." LOL
Here it goes again, that miraculous, synchronicity that I find happens so effortlessly in my sobriety. I just have to look in a new direction, or in this case, an old direction, and God gives me all these encouragements that that is the way he wants me to go. I, too, have been taking another look at my Catholicism, and stumbling on blogs such as Catholic Alcoholic, and I found myself at a dinner party last night sitting next to someone else raised Catholic and a discussion ensued.
And now you, an old friend, echoing my own thoughts. "Maybe it's time to go back."
Ecclesiastes, huh? Okay.
P.S. I downloaded Recovery Rosary to my Kindle last week. At least it gives me something to think about during the rosary instead of what I'm going to have for dinner, or that I really need to make an appointment to have my teeth cleaned. lol
LOL Kary May...you are such a treasure. I love your comments!!!
xoxo
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