Day: August 10, 2026

“What we are powerless to attain, is attaining us in our inability to attain it.”

– Jim

In turning over to God my inability to control my alcohol use, I am thinking of it in a different way. Jim recently talked about how drinking is a means to cover up and numb our emotions. I have always known this, but in recent years could not apply it to my life situation. However, in reassessing it now, I am aware that when I drink, although I used to say it was because I was bored, I can see it filling up a void of loneliness. This is the first truth.

The second truth, is in understanding that God knows about this vice of mine and still loves me whether or not I act on it. However, as with Jim’s teaching once again, I can walk a path of least resistance in knowing God, by abstaining.

Thirdly, just today in having listened to the last video on Mystic Sobriety, I can understand that even though I am not in a place where I need to “hit bottom”, in applying the steps, in turning my life over completely to God’s care, I find in God’s reciprocity of love my destiny is fulfilled. Which is the state of realistic and healthy drinking.