Those of us who have been living in one day at a time recovery for a substantial amount of time understand that time changes everything. This is because of the reality of passing years and aging. We have heard that it is a privilege many people don’t get to experience. As the years have passed by many of us become grateful for simple things like being awakened as recovering people. What we understand is the opportunity to live freely from active addiction brings with it gifts of understanding and experience. We learn coping skill that had eluded us in previous years and we have become a bit more flexible. We had to learn these skills or the passing years would have been very difficult to navigate. Time changes everything but it brings with resilience. It’s called growth. We learn how to let go of what we cannot change. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of worry and resilience. Worry is inevitable for us. Resilience – well that just seems to come over time. When an unexpected stressful situation occurs many of us know that we can and will become worrisome people. It is not unique to just people living in recovery. It happens to all people. When stressors invade our personal lives some of us become overwhelmed with worry. Answers or solutions can not come to us soon enough. When we learn to let go and worry without being all consumed it is because in our reality we becoming resilient people. Stressors or difficulties will lessen in time. The very act of worrying without losing our minds is a skill we develop and now that we have discovered how to do this we will be okay. One day at a time living makes us so. We reach out when we need to. We are okay. Peace.
Most people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of hearing words that speak to us. We hear words of joy when we hear someone smile. We hear words of pain when we see the frustration and sadness when tears role down their cheeks. We hear words of belonging when someone shakes our hand or hugs us. We hear words of freedom when someone shows us how to live life one day at a time. And we hear words of responsibility when someone needs help. This is the reality of living in recovery and hearing words that speak to us. And when we need we will hear the words belonging in coffee shops, at kitchen tables, and in the rooms of recovery. We need to listen with our hearts in the reality of life and recovery one day at a time. Peace.
Many people who are living in one day at a time recovery understand and believe that when they were using they were like children who thought that they had complete control of their sandbox. What we did not understand was our sandbox was in complete control of us. Our sandbox dictated as to who we would let play with us. Besides this we had no other thoughts than we always needed to be in our sandbox. Even when we were longing to be elsewhere or anywhere besides our sandbox we could not because our sandbox was the only place we were comfortable. Even when other children were going to school we stayed behind and our natural development simply wasn’t happening. Others had to intervene rescuing us from an unnatural dependence. We began to understand the reality of the other. We stopped playing in our sandbox becoming healthy one day at a time. When we realized the importance of our intervention we became grateful. Now we could develop naturally. We rested in the arms of hope. Peace.