Many of us living in one day at a time recovery understand freedom from active addiction. When we have been living in recovery for a while, we begin to understand that such freedom bears with it the reality that we have served this freedom by being faithful to the confines of total abstinence. We understand that sharing such freedom is a responsibility of all who share in the reality of one day at a time recovery. It takes many years of freedom for some of us to understand that we have benefitted from such freedom. Most of us had believed for a while that such freedom was being employable people who were capable of supporting ourselves and our families while being responsible, productive members of society. Being as such is a benefit of recovery but it is not necessarily freedom. When we continue to experience freedom from active addiction that makes it alright for us to be uncertain, wrong and fearful while knowing that such things are what they are, and that gives us the ability to be recovering people who know the meaning of responsible freedom and responsible living as we develop a responsible faith in our imperfection. This lets us know that in all honesty that we are simply people who are beginning to let go of mishaps, resentments and ego, and we hope we might somehow be of service to people by the means of our limited knowledge, our limited insight and our limited experience. We find that we are growing bit by bit year by year – one day at a time. We’re good with that. It’s freedom’s reality. Peace.
