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Day 300

12/7/2014

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Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful recovering alcoholic/addict.  My heart has been more at peace since I give every day to God.  The world still goes on around me, I can just deal with it better now.  I used to be so worried about what was going to happen next, or what was not going to happen.  I tried to have control over everything in my life, when in reality the only thing I really had control over my actions and my reactions.  A friend of mine, I will call S. always used to talk about "keeping his side of the street clean."  It took me a while to get it.  But there is another saying I saw that helped it make sense. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.  I used to think I deserved all the crap I put myself through, but I deserve peace, and I am the only one that can give it to myself.  As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nobody can bring you peace, but yourself."  So I wrote a poem about what is peace to me.  It is an acrostic.

PEACE

Personally,
Eliminating
Alcohol
Changed
Everything

Peace means something different to everyone.  When I was drinking, I never knew true peace.  In sobriety, I am living it more each day.  Have a great one! 
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