Good Things

I read the affirmation today, "I deserve the good things that happen in
my life" and it took me by surprise. As a codependent from an alcoholic
background my focus and energy was always directed toward preventing
major catastrophes from happening to others and myself. It seemed as
though the good things others were experiencing were out of reach for me
and not even a possibility. For I thought I was a cripple and not
deserving or able to experience good things.

Today, in CoDA, I am changing - beginning to open up to the possibility
that good things happen and that I deserve them. That's what the CoDA
program has done for me. It has allowed a breadth of vision that
includes an attitude that I too am a child of a Loving Creator who wants
me to have good things. My responsibility today through the 12 Steps
will be to believe that I deserve them and they will happen.

Carey B. (2011)

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