Personal And Spiritual Growth
By Darryl Duke. Filed in Belief |Tags: finding true happines, overcoming fear, self-actualization, self-improvement, spiritual growth
Finding true happiness in my life came about by a slow and often uncertain journey on a path that I would later figure out I created. A journey that while far from over, no longer requires as much effort as it once did to believe in myself and a creator I presently call God. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of my book that talks about personal and spiritual growth and what it did for me.
Due to the level of personal growth I’ve achieved so far in my sobriety, I very rarely display the insecure and often immature behaviors that I did in my drinking days. I can still be immature and even unspiritual at times when I decide to act like “the funny guy” but I don’t worry about this affecting my spiritual growth like I used to because I know it’s not who I really am. However, when I try to describe exactly what personal and spiritual growth is, it’s very hard to do. Also, what one person considers to be personal or spiritual growth can be quite different from another’s. For my own personal growth, the self-actualization I experienced was a result of it and helped take me to a whole other level of wanting to help others. For my spiritual growth, overcoming my fears with prayer and action took me to a whole other level of belief in a creator and myself. I also know that I still need to grow much more as a person and that I certainly have a long way to go before I’m at the level of spiritual growth that I see in some other people. But as I wrote in the beginning of this book, a part of spiritual growth is knowing you will always need to grow, and I will add that I believe a part of personal growth is realizing this even more.
