There are people living in one day at a time recovery who spend parts of their time entertaining bitterness. When we do this we are in all actuality living disappointed and resentful lives. We spend our time looking for someone or something to blame. Such a reality is akin to depression. With no hints of true gratitude we share our bitterness with others in an attempt to make allies in creating a “common enemy”. This has been a passion of humanity since the beginning of time. Resentment and hate are dubious luxuries recovering people cannot afford. It leads us back to active addiction or what alcoholics call a dry drunk. There are better realities we can entertain and when we find gratitude we can find them. Reach out. Peace.
Most people living in one day at a time recovery eventually come to understand that we all have a beauty that we try to hide. The beauty we all try to hide is the innocence and the vulnerability that live in the very depths of our souls. One day at a time we come to understand how little we really do know and how vulnerable and innocent we truly are as we live our lives as recovering people. Even the most cynical of us eventually learn to trust in a higher power that loves us unconditionally and is impossible for a human being to truly comprehend. We discover that we stop allowing ourselves to be led by the whims and desires of our egocentric delusions. When we do this we understand the reality of one day at a time recovery and now when we fall we fall upward. Peace.
Some of us who are living in one day at a time recovery learn when we are blaming others for our struggles we are actually in all reality paying no attention to what our struggles really are. This is the reality of scapegoating which can make us bitter people opposed to love, belonging, and the inextricable connection between all people. When we understand this we understand we can disagree without opposing love, belonging, and the inextricable connection we all share. Scapegoating and dehumanization should happen less when we live in one day at a time recovery and perhaps we learn to drop the word blame in regards to the reasons for our own unhappiness. Struggles become less as we discover our own reality. It’s the simplicity of love. Peace.
Some people living in life one day at a time discover if they live their lives without extending grace they will end up being self-righteous resentful people. Some of us who live our lives in one day at a time recovery understand this and in understanding this we come to know that we have lost all claims to self-righteousness the moment we declared ourselves to be addicts. The more we hold onto our self-righteousness the more resentful we will become. Our fears, our uncertainties, and our need for control in all honesty reveal to us our claims to moral and spiritual superiority are nothing but the created fallacy of an egocentric delusional reality. At some point in our recovery this happens to all of us. We had to think this way to feel safe. It helped us deal with our fear of being or becoming weak. When we mature in recovery we accept it and in doing so we learn the gift of extending grace not only to ourselves but to others as well. We need to be vigilant. Some of us don’t live long enough to experience it. Bitterness is poison. We need to extend grace to get past it. Peace.
The reality of being people who are living in one day at a time recovery is sometimes we are people who are walking with broken legs. We limp and hobble along knowing that full-well that if we do not reach out for support we could very easily fall flat on our face causing serious harm to ourselves. After we have fallen enough we come to the realization maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to ask for help. Very often we find help in places we never thought we would. Somehow, someway, someone knows what to do and recognizing we are walking with broken legs they either become a temporary crutch to help us once again navigate the reality of recovery one day at a time or they show us where to get the help we need. And when we heal a bit we help others who are walking with broken legs. To receive and to give. One day at a time recovery teaches us this empathetic reality. Peace.
People living in one day at a time recovery know the reality of rising peace. We have experienced this through our experiences of acceptance, courage, and the wee bits of wisdom we have gathered and tried to hold onto during our one day at a time living. The hopeless have become hopeful and in this we find rising peace. As we live in constant vigilance in the reality of abstinence, we grow a bit at a time from the experience, strength, and hope given to and shared with us by other recovering people. We get what they are saying and we are doing what they are doing which is living in recovery one day at a time. They have shown us even the difficult is doable and in as such we continue living in rising peace. It’s our reality which is living in continual grace. Peace.
Those of us who live in one day at a time recovery eventually understand that there is hope for the hopeless. Discovering our need to be in complete control or our need for complete certainty reveals to us how little power we have over much of life. We eventually understand that the only reason we found recovery was because our situation existed in the reality of hopelessness. We discover through an incredible amount of given grace God, the spirit, or the universe flung us into one day at a time recovery as imperfect and as uncertain as recovery might be. The more hopeless that we were the more hope we did find. It’s the reality of Pandora’s box. Hope was and is our saving grace. It’s a gift. Peace.
People living in one day at a time recovery know the reality of being diamonds in the rough. If we are living in a humble reality we really don’t have much of a problem accepting this because we know that every diamond was at some time nothing more than a chunk of coal. Becoming and being diamonds in the rough is more than good enough for most of us. We know that it is the grace of God, the spirit, or the universe that has transformed us and we are humble enough to always remember this. Our intrinsic value is that we have always had intrinsic value. Our past is our greatest teacher. It brought us into one day at a time recovery. We know our reality. Peace.
What many of us who live in one day at a time recovery eventually learn is that we need to have a little less fire in our recovery and we need to share a lot more love. We are not the be all and end all to people caught in the struggles of active addiction but when the fire of recovery is strong within us we write our books, do our talks, proclaim our proclamations, and aim our sails towards our own personal salvation endeavors. We might even be so foolish as to believe that our lives have been unsoiled to point that we are role-models for others to lean on but in time reality sits in. We’re just people who need love and love always takes work. The fire will cool and we will accept this. It’s a universal truth. We become kinder, gentler people. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery are people who have an understanding of generosity in regards to extending a helping hand to those in need. We will roll up our sleeves and help a friend stack firewood or we will volunteer at a local soup kitchen to feed the less fortunate. We will listen to the old-timer tell the same story over and over again in the rooms of recovery and we will listen to the new-comer’s dreams of wanting to save all the addicts and at the same time save the world too. In addition to this we will make peace with our own imperfections and in doing so make peace with the imperfections of others. Generosity in regards to extending empathy and compassion helps us to understand our inextricable connection with others. It makes the world a better place. Peace.