People living in one day at a time recovery for a fair amount of time understand the importance of day 103. The importance of it is is it is a beginning to brave new world of one day at a time recovery. When I say it is a brave new world I say it because it takes courage to get this far and the courage to do so can only be found by a grace that only God, the spirit, or the universe can give. This is day 103 of a new life and around this time we just might be realizing we are are on a journey that is not a game. It is a life and death situation. This is the importance of a little over 3 months of abstinence. What we need to realize, as it was said before, is it takes a whole lot of grace to get here and keep on going one day at a time and this grace is having the courage to reach out for help when help is needed. Though we know God, the spirit, or the universe is there for us we know that they usually work through people and these people can just pop into your life when you’re least expecting it but most hoping for it. Be brave – reach out. That is what day 103 is about. It’s a beginning to the rest of your life.
Many people who are living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of being prodigals. The reality of being a prodigal is sometimes, even after many years of recovery, we are so caught up in the false reality of our own stories we actually believe the lies that we tell ourselves in order that we may protect the status quo of our shadow-selves thereby believing we are way more important than we really are. In other words we become little control freaks trying to manage the rooms of recovery and make them havens for our own little egos because we have the need to be in control of our own lives and our own one day at a time recovery. We say, “Welcome prodigals! Welcome to the real world. Do you see where you are. You are here and you are here because of grace. Nothing else has brought you here.” Because of this understanding we will see we have done nothing to find recovery. It found us. Be humble prodigal. Peace.