When I was considering quitting my job and staying home with the children, I asked everybody I knew for advice. I didn’t’ want to make the decision myself and I didn’t want to make the wrong decision. My marriage was still very rocky- my husband was pushing me to make the decision so that he could better control me. But quitting was also something I wanted.
I asked friends and almost everybody I knew in two Al-Anon groups. They said to pray and meditate. Almost everyone recommended that I not quit my job. They said, “you need that security!” I was on the phone asking yet another person’s advice while my poor baby played alone. This person told me that prayer was asking for God’s help and meditation was listening for his answer. She told me to ask for my Higher Power’s will.
As I hung up, I had a vision. It was a vision of a giant telephone. God was calling. The only problem was, he was getting a buy signal. God couldn’t get through if he wanted- I took the phone, hung it up and played with my baby.
The next week I quit my job. My husband was forced to take complete financial responsibility for the family. It’s been five years and I know that quitting my job was God’s will and the right decision for me.
~ United States
“When my Higher Power calls me, is the line open?”
(Having Had a Spiritual Awakening pg. 35, now available on ebook)
The website link to the group meeting room is http://www.12stepforums.net/chatroom2.html. There are other ways to join the room also. Using mIRC or other chat client, the server we are on is irc.chat4all.org, port 6667. which users will need to add to their IRC server list, and our room name (#alanonchat) to their IRC channels.
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