Step 2 – coming to believe

I’m here to talk to you about how I got sober, what I did, things like that.

Now, I didn’t know what that was going to entail, but as soon as I decided that my way wasn’t working and I wasn’t going to do it anymore my way, a lot of things began to change for me. One of the things that happened was that this family took me in. Now, this family had three small children, and I can assure you that I would never have allowed me the way I was to get near my daughter. This family was very generous to me, and they took me in and took care of me for quite some time. I came to believe that there was something out there that would be better than what I was doing.

Now they happened to be a Christian family, and given some of the biases I had at that time, that wasn’t working for me, but I did believe in a higher power. And when I was able to say I was a failure, I was able to begin to see that there was something out there working in my favor, that there was something out there. I didn’t know what it was, but I could sense some beneficence force working for me. When I finally accepted that, I didn’t know what it was; people call it God. I talked about that in another video,

My Concept of God; There Is One I’m Not It.

That’s all that I know about God.

There’s something there that wants me to succeed, that wants me to live. I get to determine what that is and what that’s called, and on that flimsy belief that there was something that was working for my benefit, I was able to begin to live a different way. Understand that what we’re trying to do here is not to make you stop drinking, we’re aiming for a spiritual awakening that helps you be a person who does not need to drink. I’m not trying to rip the alcohol out of your hand and say, “Don’t drink that.” That doesn’t work for anybody. I am saying that once you develop spiritually and understand certain basic principles, you have this spiritual awakening that causes you to be the kind of person who does not need to use alcohol to get through life if that makes any sense.

I’m not here to tell you to stop drinking; I’m here to encourage you to believe that there’s something out there bigger than yourself that will help you and give you the strength that you need to face life without alcohol. That’s all I’m trying to do.

That’s what happened to me. If I could drink, I would, but I can’t because it just consumes me. When I pick up that first drink, it just consumes me and takes me right down. Well, the person that I am today does not have a craving for alcohol. That’s the only reason I’m sober because I no longer have a desire for alcohol. What I’m trying to tell you about is how that happened to me, how I lost that craving for alcohol. I hope this has helped. There is something out there.

I know it there, there’s something there and it’s not me, and that’s all I need to know.

Thanks for joining me. Take care. Bye

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