Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the importance of having a morning routine. Many of us who do have a prayer life will thank God, the spirit, or the universe for waking us for another awakening and we will ask for help to face the day clean and sober. We will also ask for help to participate in life and recovery responsibly and do what it is we must do to be responsible and helpful in our daily affairs. Most of us believe this helps us to start the day the right way. Some of us then choose to meditate or contemplate in moments of aloneness (but togetherness with the other) while being aware to the reality of the moment. Some of us read daily messages and some of us write. We know this is a good way to start our day. It helps. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery often come to an understanding that as they grow into recovery they become woke. What happens is we start to realize we have compassions and concern not only for ourselves but for other people in their suffering and we also learn how to celebrate their wellness, their accomplishments, and their overall being. Why do we do this? We do this because we know that when we rise to face the day as recovering people who know the reality of love and one day at a time recovery. If people are to criticize us for this we might ask them, “Did you know us when we were not in recovery?” It took a lot of compassion, love, and concern from others to help us grow and we are grateful we have become woke. It’s a big part of our recovery. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery discover when we become abstinent and become people who frequent the rooms of recovery we will pick up tiny bits of knowledge. Phrases like take it one day at a time, grace is a gift, the gift of desperation, and let go and let God become tidbits of food for our souls. Such tiny pieces of knowledge help us to identify with the experiences of one day at a time recovery. Realizing together we can find reality we become maybe just a little wiser as to how to face adversity while remaining abstinent. The experience, strength, and hope of others often shows us how to learn this reality. We become humble understanding that God, the spirit, or the universe is there for us. We become grateful people gaining a little knowledge day by day. It all helps. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery eventually understand that trees shall bend in the wind but we do not get a chance to experience this until we do find recovery and in that recovery we discover life on life terms is about being resilient. Being resilient, or becoming resilient, is a gift that opens the doors to understanding the responsibility of grace and in such grace we become flexible enough to ride out the storms of life bending as trees do as they bend in strong winds remaining abstinent and giving recovery the opportunity to grow and be of help to others who are seeking the reality of recovery one day at a time. Many of us do this when we meet in the rooms of recovery which is recovering people helping recovering people. We bend and model a new reality. It’s all about resilience. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery know that abstinence often leads us to the beginning of new ties. The new ties that we begin to develop often occur in the realities of relationships, jobs, studies, and hobbies. Those of us who like to participate in the rooms of recovery often build and develop new friendships with people we meet in the rooms. Some recovering people also start new jobs and some even become people who work with other recovering people. This is more common than we might think. Some of us go back to school and further our studies. Some of us start new hobbies and pastimes. Perhaps we paint, exercise, or create or collect music. These are all some of the natural activities of recovery that start anew or in some cases become active again. They all help. Welcome to recovery. Welcome to grace. Peace.
Many of us who are people living in one day at a time recovery know people who in our knowledge have never fallen. This is how we create legends in our hopeful and hoping realities of recovery. We always seem to look up to these people with our innocent longings of how could we be like them. In reality we just haven’t been around them long enough to see them when they did fall. Their fall is the reason they are in recovery. They too had hit a bottom but of course we excuse them because at the time of their bottom they like us knew no better. This is the distortion found in the false experiences in our minds. You see – they were just like us. They too were human. What we need to realize is we all had to and have to pay our dues. Just like them our pain is real. When we learn this we learn how to give ourselves grace. The tree that hasn’t fallen doesn’t exist. We all belong. Peace.
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.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the need to develop a special humility. In this humility we whole-heartedly believe that our recovery is a gift. What we need to accept is that our gift will not help everyone who realistically needs to find one day at a time recovery even though we might like to believe it will. Our humility tells us this would be unwise for us to even try to. If people cannot identify with us we have very little that they would want. It’s like trying to force our recovery on them. They will just shut us down whether we know it or not. If they are drawn to us perhaps we can help. Then and only then will they be receptive to our story. When they see the miracle of abstinence and want it they will grow. This becomes the reality of belonging. We cannot push them. Then we pray, “let the miracle begin” for them, for us, for everyone. One day at a time recovery works. It’s a humbling reality. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand that pride is a double-edged sword. Many of us who come into recovery understand that if we are currently unemployed we should try and find work. As we begin our search we might believe that some work is below us. This can keep us unemployed for a long time. On the other hand, if we do find employment, and if we take pride in our work, employers might consider us as assets who have the right attitude as employees. Advancement and raises happen to those of us do take pride in our work. A good employee also has humility. It’s a reality. it is also a beneficial life skill because some people refuse to be told what to do. Here is a little secret in the work-world. Our supervisors can tell us what to do. It’s a reality. Peace.