Many of us living in one day at a time recovery know the fallen from grace story, and claim to have lived it. The sad thing about this story is we believed that we had to have lived in state of grace that was so innocently powerful we told ourselves we were worthy of praise and admiration from God, the spirit, or the universe itself, and had or should have had, a special place of belonging with them. We were left in dismay when those around us could not see our special reality or, unique status in being. After being in one day at a time recovery for a few years, or becoming mature in age, we see the error of our thinking when we see that we were not all that, and a bag of chips. What we come to realize is grace is what brought us into recovery and might have even saved our lives on numerous occasions. We had the same amount of unique status as everyone else, and our position in being was and is that grace holds us and grace had freed us from the bondage of active addiction. Our uniqueness is that we are inextricably connected with all things living and all things being. Thinking we are above others or that we are below others is dangerous thinking. We all belong to grace. Nothing can change that. Peace.
