Just a general discussion question. What does Miracles In Progress mean to you? How has it helped you start or add to your program of recovery? How often do you use the MIP site? Just reply with your ideas, feelings, thoughts, and give us an idea of how you are benefiting from having MIP as a part of your recovery tool box.
MIP was here for me way back in my first couple of attempts at recovery. It was a place for me to SHARE. To cry, to vent, to come to when i couldn't get to a meeting, when there was no MEETING available, when i couldn't sleep. EXPERIENCE STRENGTH HOPE LOVE. HELPING OTHERS by getting out of myself.
Even though i don't visit too often now i always know in my heart that i have a place to come if i need to.
In the early days, this site was very important for me. I have managed to stay clean for a while now (almost 2 years). This site and people like BigV really kept me from using. I have not been using the site at all lately as I have been busy with life. In the early stages of my recovery, I used the site every day. Now it is once every month or 2. I will try to use it more often in the hope that I can help someone out. I don't know if there is anyone out there as strange as me and can relate to my experiences buy you never know. I will check in often to see if I can help out.
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God is the only one you can depend on in recovery.
I like this board. For the most part it tries to stick to NA language and traditions, unlike a lot of confusion anonymous I see around the web.
For me, it's a place I can come any time, although I went away for awhile, and find someone who will say something I need to hear or who can use my ES&H.
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The truth does not change based on my inability to stomach it - Flannery O'Connor
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations - Michael J. Fox
MIP is part of my daily recovery program.. The first thing I do in the morning is post the jft meditation and usually add a comment. Then throughout the day I check in and add my ESH to whatever discussion we have going.
MIP is my home away from home(cyber compared to face -to -face.I am helped all the time with support and meaningful sharing in a helping manner.I have met,think and pray about all of our folks who stop in to offer whatever ESH they have and to maybe help someone stay clean one day at a time!!!..I look forward each day to talking with people I have come to know,who will help me honestly and to share their suggestions on what helps them...As long as we remain focused on carrying message of hope we will be okay!!!!
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Our purpose is to remain clean,just for today,and to carry the message of recovery.
MIP - has become one of my tools for recovery -Its sensational, Its very easy to get enlightment, to challenge my thought process - thru others posting - I love this site - another gift to my recovery
I have been here at MIP since 05 and is a more than daily thing for me with my agoaphobia this is my recovery home a place where I cvan get feedback on many of my problems JOhn I once helped run the chat room m ip was my life till I crashed I am grateful tpo be here
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino
Miracles In Progress Family has been an integral part of my daily recovery since 2006 I guess. Just like what 2ala2 shared on another thread/topic here, it amazes me to go back and read some of my posts from the past here. The struggles, the awareness, the reaching out, the strength and hope that I received from various members here, the conflicts, reacting, fighting with others here, forgiving, letting go, love and care, the a-ha moments, learning to work on relationships here with other members, gratitude to those who keep this place going, getting an opportunity to be of service to others selflessly, getting to know other MIP family members from here over the years, meeting my current Sponsor at this place!!! Watching other members go through tough times and coming through clean, I've had the privilege to witness many miracles growing from their early days clean into amazing people in recovery, getting to learn from them! What a blessing it has been! Just like it happens in a family back at home.
Grateful to be part of this Miracle, and am proud to be a Miracle-in-Progress!
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Hmmmm, too many things does MIP mean to me,,, ut heres a short take=
Ive been sharing and shared with from 2003/04.. Ive been at this Fourm almost ech day since then. It has supported me in the darkest and the best days of my recovery. I have had fine shareing all through that time. This Forum has met almost all my recovery needs. This place where we share is a seperate section called Narcotics Anonymnous. This section is dedicated to sharing the NA Way.
My first friend then was cooncatbob. Then there was John who has held this Forum together thru hell and high water and good times. There wer occassions we were witness to, like John's marriage to Rose. Theres been times when there was just one share a day and now it,s up and running again.
So,, what more can I add ? And like Jana says, I love the way the NA Focus has been maintained here.
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
It's been good for me in that i was able to provide a service to others for awhile which is what I was needing to do . I've also met and gotten to make friends.
A lot has gone on in the years i've been here I went through some difficult times here lots of frustration but i learned one valuable lesson, one that I still experience often and that is I am powerless over people places things and situations but that I have to find PEACE with those things and not try to control or change them, let God's will be done , I just need to step aside at times and let things be.
I love the open and honest sharing from others, and when i need a place to get some help I know that I can come here.
Today i am greatful for what I have and don't have.
