People living in one day one day at a time recovery understand the reality of people being people when people are healthy. The first reality we understand is when people are healthy they are more content. We know this from the personal experience of we being people who are healthy people. When we are healthy we are more attuned to what is going on in our world and also in the worlds of those around us. When healthy we are better at navigating the ever fluctuating waves of life. We could say that we are more in touch with reality. Our reality is life is life and as we go with the flow we experience the joy that life offers us. In all reality we also roll with the punches when being hit with life’s adversity. We are also better at dealing with the doldrums of being a human being who is a human being living. When healthy, which can be much of the time, we are more productive, flexible, and adaptive to the realities of human reality and its needs. We can be generous people but we are generous people who live with realistic and reasonable boundaries. Boundaries are part of being healthy. What we realize is our kindness is in large supplies when we are well. This is the reality of people being people when we are healthy. It’s a gift. Peace.
Those of us who have chosen to live life one day at a time should honestly, and humbly, expect that we will live a life of one day at a time recovery if we maintain the spirit of abstinence in all of its humility, and all of its hope. This reality is only obtainable should we experience the reality of grace. People who are members of the rooms of recovery continually model this reality for us. We get to see grace in action as these people continually bestow it upon us and each other. This is the reality of self-help which is we help ourselves by helping each other. We need to persevere one day at a time. It’s all about grace. It’s our hope. Peace.
Many of us living in one day at a time recovery understand when we are practicing being resilient in today we are creating hope for tomorrow. When we are living as resilient people there is a determination growing within us that brings a familiar strength that pushes us to keep going, and keep growing, in order that we can face adversity, while being capable of remaining abstinent one day at a time, today. This is the reality of hope which we lived yesterday, live today, and will live tomorrow. Our experience teaches us that life is a doable and inviting place to be when we practice becoming resilient while living in today. Resilience and hope happen before we even know it. They are gifts. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery stumble into periodic times of living with poetic melancholy (we are just in a rut). We need to understand it is not always a spiritual ineptness that causes this, but when it is, we need to realize the importance of living one day at a time putting one foot in front of the other. For some of us the remedy is simply – “Maybe we just have to be” and as we are we will see the scales of a healthy life will eventually measure out much more contentment and peace than we could ever have dreamed of. Tomorrow will come and we will be. One day at a time recovery proves this to us. Life is doable and life will once again be good. Reach out. Peace.
People living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of being abstinent from active addiction. Putting the plug in the jug (as alcoholics would say) was and is the most important thing that we could ever do. The thing we need to recognize is there isn’t much of a chance of finding one day at a time recovery, serenity, or even reality unless we do become abstinent and remain so for a fair amount of time. Depending on the person, it can take years for us to mature in recovery and understand what reality is all about. It’s life. We need to understand this. It’s all a gift that often takes time which teaches us the meaning of grace. It’s just who we are. Peace.
Those of us who have been living in one day at a time recovery know as we are choosing to live in recovery that it just happens to be that divine intervention is what it takes for our eyes to see and our ears to hear. This intervention happens when we comprehend the reality of grace found in the rooms of recovery which occurs day after day week after week month after month and year after year one day at a time. We eventually understand that as grace intervenes we are experiencing a spiritual newness which enables us to grow a little bit which perhaps helps us to help others who are also living in recovery. It becomes the benefit of togetherness. We begin to see and to hear. It’s the gift of reality. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand finding, and maintaining, the simple reality of abstinence. This discovery reveals to us that the past unmanageability of our own lives had left us full of a fearful desperation but when we experienced abstinence we discovered the meaning of living in the reality of hopeful, doable lives. In other words we began to live manageable lives and we became free from the scourges of active addiction. Living in abstinence becomes the simplest of our desires. With a bit of time of living in abstinence we became people living in recovery which guides us into reality. We find reality in the rooms of recovery. We also find grace and humility. Join us. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the process of finding recovery and reality. Both recovery and reality develop with many years of living life one day at a time. Also we understand that as we grow older we understand the reality of time takes time. As we age we are inclined to know ourselves a bit better and we comprehend that we are not as wise as we pretended to be. Another reality is by the simplicity of knowing ourselves better we lose the reality of our own innocence. This becomes part of the process of growth and humility. In this process we realize that we often act not according to reason. Often our actions are based upon our emotional response to life’s situations and the whims of our egos. Our reality and our recovery makes us aware that such responses do not have to control our lives. Sometimes we will even be able to delay our emotional responses and we might even be able to curb the whims of our egos. In as such during our one day at a time journeys we become aware of the process we are experiencing. It’s a gift. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand that the installation of hope happens when we learn to trust the reality of living in recovery. In doing so we learn that God, the spirit, or the universe has plans for us and that such plans unfold wherever and however they so choose. This reality unveils the meaning of the fog lifting and the development of the ability to see past, or through the dark. Continuing abstinence has a way of making this happen and our hope begins to grow. One day at a time recovery becomes a journey in courage. We begin to understand that everything is a gift of abundant grace. There is no other reality. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand that there is a solidarity that does exist amongst those of us who like to meet in the rooms of recovery. In this solidarity we believe I can’t but we can. We also believe if we do not pick up that first drug or drink that God, the spirit, or the universe can make recovery possible. We are also whole heartedly coming to the rooms to help not only ourselves but others too. The reality of our bottoms, and the humility that we find in recovery changes our lives for the better. Grace becomes our defining reality and this reality makes recovery more than possible. It happens one day at a time not only in solidarity within ourselves but also in solidarity with the very spirit of recovery. Freedom from active addiction becomes ours for the taking. Please join in. You’re not alone. Peace.