35 and Older Accountability Group

Checking in.

Have a great weekend all

 

Prayer is extremely powerful and necessary. What most do not understand though is that God's grace can't get to us if we close ourselves off to it by keeping in our lives things which are opposed to it. For me I used to pray but never took any pains to change the movies I watched, the music I listened to, or the company I kept. I didn't even bother practicing custody of my senses and would rubber neck every time I would see a woman walking or I would click on descriptive stories and threads on this site. I never removed the obstacles to grace and so tons of times I would pray and then fall.

Then I thought to myself who would praise their friend and then tolerate someone disrespecting their friend in the same setting? How can I pray Lord Jesus save me with your grace and Sacraments but then go an listen to music which blasphemes Him or movies which show sins or people who lead me to sin?

I still fall but as my counter shows I've fallen more into the saving love of God than the slavery of the devil and this has only been made possible because I've been opening up my heart to Him. I used to never make it 24 hours!

God is Love!
God is Goodness!

I'm sure some will scoff and say "life would be boring without this music or that show" but once you make the decision to sacrifice that stuff for the sake of God you find that this journey is far from boring. For the first time in a long time I can say I'm having the time of my life! My life is no longer boring because God makes all things new!

 

10 days and feeling good and hopeful. It's a dangerous time because sometimes I think "the rules" don't apply any more.

 

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I'm liking this approach bro, be mindful of triggers and temptations, let's get to 21 days and see how we are.

 

Checking in today. Had some struggles getting f out of bed on time. I need to keep guard. Laziness is a precursor to relapse.


Pray for me. God bless and be safe today!

 

Check in, good week, close call on Friday but seem to be back on track. Feel like I'm starting to see my efforts to be more productive pay off. Have to remember to continue to feed the right wolf in everything I do. I feel like every decision I make puts me on a path. Even if being lazy and procrastinating has nothing to do with watching porn, it puts me in a mindset that might eventually lead there.

 

Failed today boys.

Start again

 

Checking in, had a good weekend and feeling optimistic for the week ahead. I hope everyone is well!

 

thanks! I had a full week streak last week, reset yesterday though.

 

@JJ_Kino yes, start again! As one of my favorite writers said "remember to count not only your falls but also your resurrections!" Never give up and look at every fall as an opportunity to learn to quickly get back up! Just think if you can grow in love to care about yourself after a fall then eventually you will grow in love to care about yourself so you don't fall.

@SeekingEnergy welcome! Great accomplishment on having a week of sobriety. Let that week inspire you that sobriety is possible.

 

Checking in today. Here and sober by the grace of God.

 

I agree I need more self love, self love for the win!

Thanks dude

 

Checking in.

Here and sober by the grace of God.

 

Checking in. Great weekend camping by the river, nice to be away from screens for a few days. Be well everyone.

 

@artifact, I'm going to be leaving the group due to having a reduced presence. I would like to allow someone who's waiting to take my place.

Thank you for the opportunity to be in the group with you fine people. God bless and be safe! We're all worth more than lives of PMO!

 

Read the smoking book a couple of hours today. Mostly stuff we have discussed here but it was good.