Most people living in one day at a time recovery understand what it is like to be embraced with love. We learn that desperation is often a gift or a cloud with a silver lining. It usually take a few years of continual abstinence for us to understand this. We need to be healthy to know we are embraced by the reality of the other. This other is the manifestation of love, kindness, and hope or what most of us call God, the spirit, or the universe that gently embraces us one day at a time. Being embraced by the other brings with it the welcomed freedom of reality and recovery. Many of us find it in the rooms of recovery. In such rooms we recover with kin and we know we are embraced by each other. We don’t have to face the difficult alone. Peace.
