Hokey

When I first got to recovery I kept hearing all of these sayings that 'I' thought were hokey. I went on 'thinking' they were hokey until I noticed one day I was using these sayings. Today I was talking with a friend in recovery and all of those sayings came flooding back to me. The sayings that sound hokey make a whole lot of sense when you are struggling with your ego and disease and you want to go and use. 


My number one saying is the shorten version of the first three steps. "I can't, he/she can, let him/her.
I re-member daily to 'take it easy' and to take it 'A DAY at A TIME'. I told my friend today to 'Stop Thinking' and when we spoke yesterday we spoke about fear and if you have fear you lack faith. 


We have no clue why these sayings work. My personal experience, when I'm holding on to my tail feathers and by the skin of my teeth, is that they work. Our lives depend on it.