Power

I came to recovery powerless.

God has given me power. Power is the ability to get things done.

That means God has provided me with the following resources; these I've had to work to acquire, in part:

  • Material resources
  • Autonomy
  • Competence
  • Connections
  • And ... oomph (mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual: inner resources)
This works well. The danger is relying on those rather than on the source. Sometimes these resources fail and I have to go back to relying on the source of the resources rather than the resources themselves.

Only then is peace restored.