Those of us living in one day at a time recovery know that there are many things we have to do in our lives to navigate the realities of wellness and freedom which we find one day at a time. Two of such things we need are for our journey to be built upon both reaching out for help when we need to and trying to help others in order that they too might find their own wellness and freedom one day at a time. Both undertakings are good and right. Such endeavors are not really a pursuit of righteousness. We are simply doing what recovering people do which is seeking the realities of wellness and freedom. Reaching out for help from others and becoming a person who can help others is the reality of being capable of receiving and giving grace. This is the foundation of wellness and freedom found in living one day at a time. This is a huge step. Many of us believe that such journeys makes God, the spirit, or the universe smile. Us too. Peace.
Many people who have been living in one day at a time recovery discover the need for humility in order that we can participate in integrating new ideas into the reality of our often closed-minded views on what recovery is and what it should be. We know that no new idea can become a part of a rigid, egocentric, proud, and inflexible mind that refuses to believe that new ideas are not a personal attack on ones being. A dash of humility will make us aware of such judgement and we will learn to harvest the reality of growth often found in integrating new ideas which enable us to understand the reality that we all belong. Fools like us understand this concept. We open our minds. It’s all grace. Peace.
Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the the upside-down world of active addiction. This occurs when we treat family like strangers and we treat strangers like family. What we don’t understand is that active addiction distorts our moral compass and family responsibilities seem to just go out the window making us participants in the world of irresponsibility while existing only for self. Eventually, we all suffer because of this and most of us will either bottom out and cause harm not only to ourselves but also to those we love. The pain of this often forces us to reach out for help. Because of this pain we have hope and we find one day at a time recovery. Reach out and find the gift of desperation. We all need help. Peace.
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.