Stuff happens. That doesn’t make me a victim.
I have failed. That doesn’t make me a failure.
I have suffered loss. That doesn’t make me a loser.
We all have trials, but they don’t have to define us and be excuses to stay stuck... “This is why I am the way I am.” When we tell the truth and get it out of our heads, we take all the power of its hold over us and we can let it go.
Even though I don’t drink anymore, I say I am an alcoholic in recovery because it gives power to my recovery. I can help others by identifying where I have come from, but it doesn’t continue to define me or keep me there.
I can claim my sobriety date as a defining moment when I step from victim —this happening to me—into victor, claiming God’s power over my obsession to drink and the thinking that controls it.
The victory lies in how we frame the circumstances and our thoughts. You can rearrange the old patterns you have in place by choosing to do so. You will begin to look at everything with new eyeglasses. It’s okay to ask for help from somebody close to you, and from God.
Step into the light just by how you view yourself. You are a victor.
See it. Believe it. Live it.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9
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