Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of living in gratitude. What we discover is that gratitude is a precursor to happiness and that happiness is a by-product of healthy living. To further this line of thought is that healthy living is a result of being abstinent from whatever we are addicted to which gives us the opportunity and the gift of participating in one day at a time recovery. When we get to be a part of such stages of development we get to experience hope and freedom. The idea is to keep this development alive and healthy which we do so more often than not by participating in the endeavor of trying to pass this experience of hope and freedom on to those of us living with concurrent disorders. We also understand that we are not alone in wanting to continue in life with this hope and freedom nor are we alone in wanting to discover the reality of hope and freedom if we haven’t found it yet. We on the the other hand understand the reality of one day at a time living when we get to experience abstinence and the fog starts to lift from our somewhat clouded reality. When this happens we are able to understand the concept of gratitude. We live in it. It’s a wonderful experience. Peace.
