As Bill Sees It
Do It Our Way?, p. 329
In praying, our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific
solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people
as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we
are asking God to do it our way. Therefore, we ought to consider
each request carefully to see what its real merit is.
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each
one of them this qualification: ". . . if it be Thy will."
12 & 12, p. 102
Tried my way for eight years and it didn't work. I replaced alcohol with pills, and in the end, I was doing both. I didn't even consider my eating disorder into the equations at that time.
Everyone else had the problem. My dad, my ex-husband(s), my son who made me feel like they were the ones who made me drink. I didn't know they didn't have the power. I didn't know I was powerless.
It wasn't until I surrendered my disease over to my God, that I was able to quit. I had to stop play 'god' with other people's lives.
