Many people living in one day at a time recovery think that being spiritually fit is living a fearless life of serenity or what some called a state of being perpetually happy, joyous, and free. This is not the way our journeys go for some of us. There are some of us who admit after a bit of time in recovery we started to feel as if we were spiritually superior people. We acted as if we had a spiritual fitness that we didn’t really have. In doing so we met our shadow selves. We discovered that being spiritually fit was when our whole being was crying out that we couldn’t go on any further but we decided to live another day. We also found that spiritual fitness was when we accepted others as being human (including ourselves) and we loved both them and ourselves and their and our shadow selves anyways. We found that being spiritually fit is not being fearless but it is being able to muster up the courage to say that I need help while knowing that one day at a time living and one day at a time recovery can be a difficult but wonderful experience. Spiritual fitness is facing both tragedy and good fortune without returning to active addiction and it is the reality of one day at a time freedom. We also discover the importance of prayer, contemplation, action, and reality. We step off the island of loneliness and join in the inextricable connection recovering people share. It’s all grace and gratitude. Even when we don’t feel it. Peace.
