Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand that if you are not person living in one day at a time recovery one day at a time language could be nothing but gibberish to you. After all how could we be powerless over an addiction and ever expect to find abstinence. Another example is how could you surrender to win. And most importantly how could you only keep what you have by giving it away. Good hearted church people might say that we are speaking the devil’s tongue. The strange thing is that therapists have been using similar language for a long time. And all of us – we probably picked up something like one day at a time from Christ when he said, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Gibberish to some. Poetry to others. Especially to those of us who have hit bottom. We had to surrender to win. In our powerlessness we found strength. And in this day we found recovery so we give it away to keep it. Peace.
