Well, here goes nothin’. Hopefully you will read the things that get posted here and find comfort, solace, hope, serenity, surrender, identification, or any number of other good things that are available and intended……and all for only 33 small payments of $19.99.
Heh-heh, just kidding. Of course, recovery is free for the taking and I know I can’t keep it if I don’t give it away. So, aside from my involvement in my home group of N.A. I have decided to give this blog a go and hope and pray for its success.
I’m not really tech savvy and I’ll be learning as I go, but I have taken the last few days to try and figure out what to add to make the site not only helpful, but appealing. I have added a movie list and a book list and would like to populate them with recovery related and spiritual growth related material as well as some “entertaining” material.
Right now I actually only have one movie and two books listed, but over time both of these lists will grow. If anyone would like to submit a suggestion for adding something to either of these lists please do so by sending an email with your suggestion to: AnonymousCafe@Live.com. Please type “book suggestion” or “movie suggestion” in the subject line. Not all suggestions will be used and those that are may not be used immediately, but please do not let that deter you from making suggestions.
Also, I’m sure that, like me, the readers of this blog may have families, jobs, activities, groups and many other things that keep you quite busy. In so saying, I have to admit that I will not be able to blog every day, nor get to all of my email every day, and there will be times when I may be on an extended break either alone or with my family or friends.
Therefore, I have decided to accept submissions for blog entries. Blog submissions may be a poem or prayer that you have found uplifting. If known please include the authors name. You may also submit blog entries pertaining to where you are in your recovery; how recovery has affected your life, thoughts, behavior, personality, actions and/or moods; how you are working your steps; or your own perceptions or information you have found that you think may be helpful to anyone in recovery. Try to remember that most recovery related programs are anonymous (thus the name Anonymous Cafe) and do not disclose personal details about others. You may, however, reveal details about yourself if you care to, but I would suggest that you keep things somewhat generic and anonymous, (e.g., “by Mike K.” instead of “by Michael James Kawolski”; or “in a store” instead of “in Saks 5th Ave in Manhattan, NY”).
If you have something recovery related that you would like to share with our readers please submit your entry for consideration to: CunningChrisC@gmail.com. Please type “blog submission” into the subject line. Not all submissions will be used and those that are may not be used immediately or in their entirety, but please do not let that deter you from making submissions. Also note that I may take the liberty of editing grammatical or spelling errors, or make changes in wording solely for the purpose of clarity. I will do my best not to alter the content or message you wish to deliver.
Right now this blog is the sole idea and work of me. I’m Christine C. and I’m an addict. I’m sure that I am not the only Christine C. in recovery so I will sign my own submissions “Christine C. (me)”. I’m not rich and I don’t have twenty years of sobriety under my belt, (in fact, I’m just short of two years), but another addict I know [who just happens to have eighteen years under his belt] told me that it doesn’t really matter how many key tags we’ve collected or how much clean time we have accumulated because all any of us really have is today.
None of us can change our past and none of us knows what tomorrow will bring because no matter what we may have planned things can always change in an instant. Now, I don’t know about you, but that gives me pause for thought and the more I think about it and the more I learn and grow in my recovery the more I see that it’s true.
What that little tidbit of information does for me [when I remember to consider it], especially in times of crisis, is it allows me to relax a little. I’m able to wake up each day and just think about that day as it unfolds. Sure I still make plans and have goals and dreams for the future, but I know that nothing is guaranteed and everything is subject to change and there is often nothing I can do about it.
So, I’m learning to take each day as it comes, and to just remember to keep doing the next right thing, and don’t forget to breathe, and always remember that life is a process. It’s progress, not perfection that keeps us moving forward. And, after all is said and done, is there really any other direction to strive toward than forward? Well, not for me there isn’t.
As I stated above, right now this blog is the sole idea and work of me, but in the future that may change. If this blog becomes popular and successful enough I may end up needing help with its preparation and delivery, help beyond mere submissions from the readers and I really hope that this turns out to be the case someday.
So, in closing my first blog entry for Anonymous Cafe I would just like to say “Thank you for looking and keep coming back”!
Christine C. (me)
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