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God speaks in the language you know best — not through your ears but through your circumstances. ~Oswald Chambers

Do you think your recovery is an accident? That is like saying the fact that you are on earth is an accident. Sobriety is never an accident and once sober, we learn to live life on purpose, not by accident. We know that we are here for a reason, just as we know that each of you is reading this page, at this time, for a reason. Our disease, our recovery, and our present circumstances have a purpose, and they become our Higher Power’s way of presenting His will to us. Our job is to meet these circumstances by practicing the principles we learn in the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions. That is God’s will. Our circumstances may be outside of our control, but the way we respond to them is not.

The circumstances of my life are my

Higher Power’s way of talking to me.

My responses show Him how well I listen.

Even though I could not have recognized it for what it was, at the time, I know, now, that his adopting me was one of the circumstances that led to my being in Chemically Dependent Anonymous today.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 342