An AA Prayer : some reflections

As we recover we pray each day to be guided by a loving inner power, seeking its will for us. Many of us also pray to be released from ‘the bondage of self’ but the truth is so often we do not have a solid centre of balanced self consciousness to claim and hold onto and lacking this at times life can seem overwhelming, and so we pray for wisdom, self acceptance and calm too the trust that we can grow wide and deep enough to contain it all.and slowly build that centre even out of pain and loss or other grief.

I was given a little card by someone in my first AA days with similar length of sobriety that said ‘faith gives us an anchor in the storm’ the foundation of self belief gives us this too, that a loving power sees knows and cares about and for us. In abandonment trauma we lose this and we have a hell of a lot if inner work to do to work on this to build a loving inner foundation.

Learning what is productive or destructive too, what keeps us grounded in care, respect and self maintenance helps as we learn how to extend this to others struggling too recognising we all have a Self and yet are part too of a deeply interconnected collective of selves. For truly whatever we go through others go through too. And as alone as we can feel at times inner sources of comfort are always available and there are always ways to reach both inward and onwards to connect