7 Keys To My Recovery

1.God 2.Prayer 3.Bible 4.Faith 5.Servanthood 6.Determination 7.Surrender

Over the next 7 entries the topic will be about my Keys to Success. I’ll start with surrender and work my way up the list. It is a vast departure of how I have written for sanitizeyoursoul.org but along with the re-design of the website comes a change in content.

Will this last forever? I have no idea but its time I stop writing about my day to day life and go back to what this was started for…solutions. I really dont know if I have 250+ entries of pure solution without sharing about what’s going on in my life. Who knows it may become combo answer/journal/open forum.

Before I get into the new format of blogging I do have one last “personal” entry to write. While May 6th is my sobriety birthday, May 8th probably holds more significance to me. That was the day I got out of self will and got on my knees asking God to remove the obsession of drugs/alcohol. While I have shared multiple times about that night, there is one side of the story that I dont think I’ve ever put out there for people to read.

The prayer is still the same “God if I am going to struggle with addiction for the rest of my life, I dont want to wake up. However if I do, I will dedicate the rest of my life to helping those trying to get sober.” What has totally been left out is what happened immediately after I prayed it.

I fell asleep. For most people that wouldn’t sound like a big deal but even to this day I battle insomnia whenever I am in a stressful situation. Heck if I know I am speaking.. 5-6 days from that date, I have a hard time going to bed. The moment that I surrendered everything to God concerning my addictions, I truly had a peace which cannot be put into words. For that I am beyond blessed.

Ok, that’s all I wanted to share about that night. From this point on when people ask me anything concerning my sobriety Im gonna start to say “May 6th is the last time I had a drink/drug, however May 8th is the day I got my life back.” By doing this if a newcomer asks what that means…open invitation to explain my personal relationship with Christ. Probably wont go over well with the “book thumpers” but I’ve never cared what they thought anyway.