Many people living in one day at a time recovery know that when there are three people living in such recovery and they are carrying message of that recovery they are much safer in maintaining and sharing that message and helping people who are seeking recovery from addiction one day at a time. We have heard it said “There is safety in numbers”. This is the beginning or the start of a meeting or what we call “The Group”. People helping people to feel both safety and hope. Our grass roots might begin with one person finding recovery that stirs the interest of another person. Then another and maybe another. This is a common beginning to new 12 step groups. Tried and tested and very often tested and true. As was said “Safety in numbers”. Tried and tested tested and true. One day at a time recovery has happened to many many people. When there are three we are safer. People who have been in recovery for a while know this. When there are three just one day at a time.
Many people who are living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of facing their past and managing their life and their life’s regrets. Although we are often reminded that the past is the past and we should not live in it with its regrets and its troubles because in truth all we can truly exist in is the present moment. It is our minds that revert back to the past but when our mind reverts back into the regretful parts of our past we lay claim to another dimension of humanity which often is reconciled only by doing good deeds such as making amends or just plain old fashioned acceptance. (Or at least trying to do so anyways.) Teachers, philosophers, prophets and 12 step gurus have been telling us to come into the present in order that we can enjoy life and live in its very presence of our physical being. Like they say “there is no time like the present.” So as we learn to come into the present “the task at hand” we learn to live life. No regrets “very few are these people” because many of us ruminate in a depressed space that lies somewhere in our souls. And isn’t that what life is about for us. Freeing our souls and living our lives and our recovery just one day at a time. We must understand that freedom has its responsibility and the responsibility is to not pick up that first one. For us to use might be to die. So one day at a time we reach out, we live. When we do this we understand grace. It is a much better today. Peace.
Some people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of living and experiencing what confabulations are. A simple definition is a confabulation is a lie told honestly. They are often the result of false memories especially those mistaken memories that happen when we experience too much time alone and we become susceptible to non-realities formed from sometimes delusional thinking. This is not a put-down. It is a reality. We believe our own lies (confabulations). One of our biggest falsehoods is we tell not only ourselves but others we could have just one. And we honestly believed it. Today we know better. We stop believing this one day at a time. We find recovery and this recovery gives us peace of mind. We welcome the reality of reality. It part of the grace we learn to experience. Peace.