There is a song by the legendary African American lyricist and singer Al Green entitled Simply Beautiful:
If I gave you my love,
I tell you what I’d do
I’d expect a whole lot of love out of youYou gotta be good to me
I’m gonna be good to you
There’s a whole lot of things you and I
Could do
Hey heyHey hey hey
Simply beautiful, simply beautiful, simply
Beautiful
Simply beautiful, simply beautiful, simply
Beautiful
Simply beautiful [Repeat: x4]What about the way you love me
And the way you squeeze me
Hey
Hey simply beautiful heyAnd you get right down it
And the love is getting you through itSimply beautiful [Repeats]
Simply Beautiful by Al Green
Dr. Flo from In These Rooms wrote in a recent blog entitled “Thy Will Be Done,”
“…Coming back to the present moment, Dr. Flo took a deep breath, said the serenity prayer, and reminded herself of the mantra that she used to cope when she was in early sobriety from alcohol use – Thy Will Be Done. As far as Flo could tell, assuming she was not just in a bizarre, alien-like, very unlike herself, hole of denial and feelings suppression, there was only one difference between her experience of this grieving and mourning experience – this “Withdrawal” process – in comparison to all the other times a romantic relationship ended. In decades past, Flo’s typical process of withdrawal from a romantic relationship (a process Flo was intimately familiar with but thought she was alone in prior to entering Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) brought her to her knees, resulting in everything from intense suicidal ideation and inability to function at school or work to manically searching for a new person to begin dating to near misses with law enforcement due to property damage…”
I wrote Dr. Flo the following as soon as I finished reading this entire blog,
“…This blog is Simply Beautiful. Thank you for your authentic lived truth, radical vulnerability and trusting in your Higher Power. Thank you for allowing that Power to use you to bless others. ‘Thy Will Be Done’ from Dr. Flo is Simply Beautiful…”
I read this Blog and I was immediately reminded of the Al Green Song “Simply Beautiful.” The lyrics above might give one a taste of the beauty of this song. If you consider yourself a music connoisseur, you don’t want to claim such without listening to this song. But I digress. Was Dr. Flo’s Blog Simply Beautiful because of her pain she shared over losing a love of her life and a joy to her heart? No. Was Dr. Flo’s Blog Simply Beautiful because she disclosed how similar relational breakups are to the grief one experiences at the loss of a loved one? No.
Step 11 of the Big Book In These Rooms states “… sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with a Higher Power as we understood this Power, praying only for knowledge of the Power’s Will for us and the power to carry that out…”
Dr. Flo’s Blog “Thy Will Be Done” is Simply Beautiful because of her honesty in declaring that in depressing situations like relational breakups and death there is the predilection for the alcoholic is to trust in the drink instead of in God or a Higher Power. Dr. Flo’s Blog is Simply Beautiful because she has the courage to share the physical and emotional pain brought on by the sense of loss and sometimes betrayal one feels when the one they love involuntarily and sometimes voluntarily walks the fuck out of your life. In moments such as these, Dr. Flo beautifully reminds us we are confronted with our limited humanity. We ain’t in control of shit. If we want to make it, we are forced to cry out like a baby “…Thy Will Be Done.” Dr. Flo’s Blog is Simply Beautiful because she takes the time to share, from the frontlines of her breakup and loss of this woman God blessed her to love, what drove her to the place and moment to declare “…The Will Be Done…”
As a young man in church, an old preacher instructed me “… when you hear a Good Word, you ought to say Amen…” I say today, when we receive (hear or read) something Simply Beautiful, we ought to say Amen. Amen Dr. Flo. Amen. Simply Beautiful.
Happy New Year Everyone. We close this year of 2021 on a note of Gratitude and Hope for 2022. May “Thy Will Be Done” in all our lives be Simply Beautiful.
Read more about Dr. Flo and Hunter and tell your story. Listen to Hunter’s Podcast. All on wreckedamerica.com. In Wrecked America, #SimplyBeautifulMatters
The Struggle Continues….
