I didn’t want to become an alcoholic when I was young. I didn’t want to be and alcoholic when I was and actively drinking. And, most of all, I didn’t want to admit I was an alcoholic when I was at the end of my drinking. My life was a mess. I was out of control.
When I did finally admit that I was an alcoholic and surrendered to God, everything changed. I was free. The alcohol was separation from God. The way was clear for me to access God’s power. I got busy being sober, staying sober and helping others to get sober and stay sober.
My mess became my message.
Now I just show up and tell my story. A message of hope. If I can do this life without alcohol, so can you. That’s the message. God did for me what I could not do for myself. I realized that being an alcoholic and now being in recovery gave me a new purpose—
To help others like myself.
I had to be an alcoholic to be able to help another one like myself —Takes one to know one. I was in a unique position now, to help others just by my experience. My credibility skyrocketed when, with God’s help, I was able to step out of that mess and into the message I was to carry. To show others that they could do what I had done. Get sober and stay sober—with community and with God. That there was another way out of the addiction cycle. I began to understand that God could use a broken thing like me.
Broken people break things.
Hurt people, hurt people.
Healed people heal people.
That’s what we do now that we are in the process of healing...we help others on their healing path. In this way, we continue to heal ourselves and show others the way.
What a concept.
Service.
Giving away what was so freely given to us.
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.” – Galatians 5:13
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