Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. I was looking over the promises in the BB this morning. This one jumped out at me.
Think of it. One of the things, which bothered others was my attitude. I was sullen, morose, and angry, when I came in. I was also full of self pity and my outlook on life was one that saw myself as a victim. I was a real charmer.
Though I tried to change that attitude myself, after others hounded me about it, nothing seemed to work half as well as when I began to put the Twelve Steps into action. I could see the change in others, who said they were very much like me in the beginning and I began to want what they had.
It was then that I began to hear a man at meetings, who would repeat these words as a mantra, “Attitudes are everything. They’re more important than facts.” Gradually those words began to sink into me, even though I resisted them. Eventually I started to understand what he meant. Before that they were just words. Now they took on a deeply spiritual context, because, I learned, that it was part of the spiritual awakening I was to undergo, as a result of these steps.
I was thinking about this today. It really was a miracle that my mind and heart were changed. I no longer thought of the world as I once did. I had lost the desire to drink. The mental obsession was gone along with the compulsion for alcohol, which drove me in the past. My views of God were turned around and I could accept the grace of a Higher Power. How grateful I am for those words, attitudes are everything, they’re more important than facts.