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| I am 57 and play many roles in other people’s lives (daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, sponsor, etc.). I am blessed with an active recovery relationship with an AA sponsor. I am a professional medical writer, an amateur song writer, and a nature lover. |
My name is Janet and I am qualified to participate in several of the 12 step
programs—the ones for those who are addicted to alcohol or other drugs, and the
ones for those who have been affected by other people’s addictions. My sobriety
date is January 6, 1983. I’m grateful to be here and to be clean and sober one day
at a time.
“practicing”. These ideas made the practice of meditation as a means to improved
conscious contact with God attractive and attainable.
My first encounter with CM came in my 17th year of sobriety. I had been
experiencing a growing discontent with my own feeble attempts at prayer.
Looking at the 11th step, I longed to know more about meditation. I knew other
people meditated and thought “why not me?” So I started to look for more
information. The Internet lead me to WCCM and weekly readings for formal
meditation groups to share before and after meditation, so I read them and began
to practice on my own.
I continued my study and practiced on my own after that. In the years since I first
started looking for sources about meditation, I have formed a deep and abiding
relationship with the Osage Benedictine Community in Sand Springs, Oklahoma,
and at Christmastime 2006 I made my commitment to the community as an oblate.
Through my relationship with the Osage Monastery (O+M), and with guidance from
Pascaline Coff, OSB, Christian meditation has become a focal point in my journey.
My experience of the 11th step has changed over the years. Not dramatically, but
persistently and progressively. Prayer and meditation was once something I would
“have to do” in order to stay sober. Then it became something I “wanted to do”
to find peace in a tumultuous world. Today, it is something I would not live
without. The point of meditation is conscious contact, the awareness that God is
in every particle of my being at an incredibly intimate level. As one who suffered
the terrors of abandonment, homelessness, rejection, humiliation, rape, and
addiction, meditation has provided me with way to curl up inside the heart of
God. The practice of meditation ensures that I will remember that my home is
there, in God’s heart, where I will never be turned away, where I will never be
alone, where I will always be loved. It is in this Home that I choose spend each
moment, now and for eternity, asking only for knowledge of his will for me and
the power to carry that out, one day at a time.
Janet
Lake & McHenry Counties, Illinois, USA
oneheart4all@myway.com
programs—the ones for those who are addicted to alcohol or other drugs, and the
ones for those who have been affected by other people’s addictions. My sobriety
date is January 6, 1983. I’m grateful to be here and to be clean and sober one day
at a time.
“practicing”. These ideas made the practice of meditation as a means to improved
conscious contact with God attractive and attainable.
My first encounter with CM came in my 17th year of sobriety. I had been
experiencing a growing discontent with my own feeble attempts at prayer.
Looking at the 11th step, I longed to know more about meditation. I knew other
people meditated and thought “why not me?” So I started to look for more
information. The Internet lead me to WCCM and weekly readings for formal
meditation groups to share before and after meditation, so I read them and began
to practice on my own.
I continued my study and practiced on my own after that. In the years since I first
started looking for sources about meditation, I have formed a deep and abiding
relationship with the Osage Benedictine Community in Sand Springs, Oklahoma,
and at Christmastime 2006 I made my commitment to the community as an oblate.
Through my relationship with the Osage Monastery (O+M), and with guidance from
Pascaline Coff, OSB, Christian meditation has become a focal point in my journey.
My experience of the 11th step has changed over the years. Not dramatically, but
persistently and progressively. Prayer and meditation was once something I would
“have to do” in order to stay sober. Then it became something I “wanted to do”
to find peace in a tumultuous world. Today, it is something I would not live
without. The point of meditation is conscious contact, the awareness that God is
in every particle of my being at an incredibly intimate level. As one who suffered
the terrors of abandonment, homelessness, rejection, humiliation, rape, and
addiction, meditation has provided me with way to curl up inside the heart of
God. The practice of meditation ensures that I will remember that my home is
there, in God’s heart, where I will never be turned away, where I will never be
alone, where I will always be loved. It is in this Home that I choose spend each
moment, now and for eternity, asking only for knowledge of his will for me and
the power to carry that out, one day at a time.
Janet
Lake & McHenry Counties, Illinois, USA
oneheart4all@myway.com
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