Those of us who live in one day at a time recovery know that recovery doesn’t just happen without work. Many of us create it. It becomes the adventure that one day at a time living makes for us. We can find this journey is simple, and we often have good days. We also have good weeks, good months, and good years. This is the reality of one day at a time recovery. We will often find that throughout these good times we can experience difficulties and adversities. Often we find that when we were creating our recovery, we now have a network of supportive people we can turn to in difficult times. These people can be natural supports. Also we know when we need to seek out professional supports. With such supports we are able to deal with such adversities that seem to be simple problems that were just interspersed struggles. They don’t seem to last as long as they did when we were not in one day at a time recovery. When we realize this we are doing well. At such a time we realize that we didn’t create our recovery by ourselves. Others helped. We were people who were ill and who then became well. Also we know we made an effort to become so. We were people who had hit a low point, and because of it we received the gift of desperation. In doing so, we were offered a life of one day at a time living. God, the spirit or the universe is on our side. He, she, or they are our friend. Remember this. Peace.
