Many of us living in one day at a time recovery after a year or two of recovery believed we were capable lassoing the moon. Such delusions put us in touch with our own grandiose spiritual superiority or should we say our egoic imaginings. The funny thing is people fairly new to recovery believed in us too. The people who had been around for many years – well – they told us to keep our feet on the ground. Years later we understood what they meant. Those who we called old-timers were supportive to us when our feet were on the ground. They told us to keep our eyes on the prize which was to stay abstinent and practice living in recovery just one day at a time. And some of us did. We did funny things like we kept going to meetings in the rooms of recovery. We became humble and did such things like letting go of any notion of spiritual superiority or our whims of being chosen. We accepted we were neither over or under any other people. We strived to be a part of even with our mistaken notions and our peculiar peculiarities. And we learned to listen to everyone. Many marvelous things did happen and would happen to us. We also had and will have our struggles. We begin to understand life. Our feet are on the ground. Peace.
