When we have been in one day at a time recovery we begin to have new beginnings. I believe I am beginning to not only wake up after a sleep, I am awakened in a new beginning. Grace has made it so. And to some of us this grace, this awakening, is a God thing. These beginnings of new beginnings seem to happen every five to eight years. Sometimes sooner – sometimes longer. These new beginnings change so like the developing seasons of life. The idea is to go with them and to pay attention to the grace that comes with them. These new beginnings do not make us better, smarter, healthier, or more spiritually fit than others. We simply begin to recognize these new beginnings with gratitude. And at these new beginnings we know grace and we know love. When calm and not stressed we see the frailties of the ego and we see the ego does not consume us. We can spend time alone much better than we could before. This is part of the beginning of new beginnings. Not perfection, but new beginnings. We know we are awakened by grace each and every day.
