Many people living in one day at a time recovery learn that difficult is not as difficult when we have been in recovery for a while. We seem to become a bit more resilient to adversity, and we become better equipped to face such adversities should we be able to use the recovery tools that one day at a time living lays at our feet. Such tools are acceptance, patience and surrendering to reality. When we admitted the unmanageability that drinking and using brought to our lives many of us surrendered to the principal of needing help. Often in desperation we reached out and something or someone intervened, and while in hospital, detox or rehab we saw our reality for what it really is. We are people living with addiction. Those of us who accept this get to understand and live recovery. Acceptance and surrender are crucial to healthy living. We also learn patience, as difficult as it may be because one day at a time growth takes time. In time we will learn that difficult is not as difficult as it used to be. We become more resilient and we’re not alone. We become akin and also inextricably connected to others in one day at a time recovery. If we meet in the rooms of recovery with the others we are akin with we experience beyond a doubt the reality of together. Recovery becomes reality. Peace.
