Why I Pray In The Shower

It’s very hard to convince others to see things our way if they don’t want to. There’s hot and cold, up and down, and everything in between when it comes to life’s experiences and what people believe in. But it is this polarity and all the things in between that makes me see a design to life. Believe what you want, but something is going on here, and I can’t help but to have hope it will all be explained to me after I die. If I’m wrong, well then it’s not going to matter. But I rather go through life with hope, and most days’ a belief that something created life and the Universe for a reason then thinking life has no meaning to it. When I do this, the world doesn’t seem so harsh, and it’s easier for me to love and understand others whether they believe in something or not.

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“I really love helping others, and it’s not limited to just friends. I’ve found that helping people who are in need makes me feel good about myself and fills me with a sense of purpose in life.”

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I know there are many unhappy people out there with a drinking problem who want to quit drinking and need hope that they can. They also need hope that they can be happy without alcohol. I hope I have shown this is possible through my book and my blog. Here’s another excerpt from my book.

“Although the basic definition for hope is to wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment, there’s obviously a diffnce between hoping for something and believing you’ll get it. When I was little, I always wished for lots of toys on Christmas and because I was spoiled, I believed I would get them. Unfortunately, being spoiled as a child and later as a teenager caused me to believe I should also have everything my way, and as I grew older, whenever things didn’t go my way, I would become angry and sad about it. My negative emotions often led to my drinking but they also contributed to me not being able to ever have the kind of hope I needed to truly believe things could be all right, so I remained negative and mostly unhappy. I tried drinking to make me happy and that didn’t work. Fortunately, after making the decision to go back to AA and praying to God that morning in 1996, I finally started to have hope I could stop drinking. My hopes have changed since then, and today one of my biggest hopes is that my story will help other people. If what has happened in my life since that morning is any indication of what having hope can do, then I have to believe it will.”

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Here is an excerpt from my book.  My beliefs about god and prayer can be found in some of the other post’s I’ve written on my blog like the one about Spiritual Awakenings. Although some people may not agree with my beliefs, I’ve found that many people do agree if prayer is tried long enough, it does help us in life.

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