You told me no human power could help me. What about meetings, the meetings after the meeting, sharing with others my experiences, therapy to help resolve my issues, retreats? I’ll never forget the message all of my sponsors have told me: “Steve, the process of creating peace within requires fellowship and efforts to learn what didn’t work, but also time to get quiet and develop connection with the hidden Power.”
At the morning meeting, people shared how some of the winds, rain and high surf on Maui had closed some of the roads. Here, on West Maui, it was beautiful. We started to drive over to the North Shore to check out the waves. Nope; roads closed; bulldozers, trucks, work crews moving debris and placing concrete barriers along the coast. Like recovery, it takes hard work to build the Broad Highway promised. Debris, not only caused from our life drinking but today, from the 100 forms of sell-centeredness need to be dealt with before all of the lanes can be re-opened.
As we turned around, we opened our hearts to the other opportunities available. The bridge of acceptance is built with surrender. When/if you have the roadhouse blues, you don’t have to pick up a beer. Effort, service and a little more surrender seem to work better to get back on the Broad Highway, without the destruction from a tailwind of instincts gone astray.
