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Prayer of the Month
When I focus on what’s good today, I have a good day. When I focus on what’s bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on the problem, the problem increases. If I focus on the answer, the answer increases.
-Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
I had forgotten how I felt in rehab. How hopeless and pitiful. I came across this poem below that is written from a girl in rehab. It brought me back to my struggles back then and I thought my readers might benefit from her words.
Here it is:
The Poetry of Recovery
No More Locked Doors
Everyday we pass through doors
Whether they’re open or locked, the decision is yours
When you choose to slip up, that decision is gone
How long they’re locked depends on what you’ve done.
Now you sit, staring, at the locked doors all around
The thoughts in your mind beating you soul to the ground
That time has now come to put change in your ways
Stop living your life in some substance-induced haze.
The time will soon come to unlock the door
From then on set your goals to always want more
If it’s the negative road and wrong choices you make
Someday, real soon, your life, those drugs WILL take.
So when you hold in your hand the key to your door
Don’t be that guy face down on the floor
For EVERYONE has the potential to be great
Just like the doors, you hold the key to your fate.
MN
