Some days are messy days for people who live with concurrent disorders. We get out of bed and our morning routine becomes messed up. Our morning prayer and our morning reading just isn’t going well because we have too much on our mind. And we can see we had skipped yesterday’s dishes. We think we will do them when we get back from work. We think we are almost broke but we see we have sixty dollars in our wallet instead of ten. That didn’t happen when we were getting wasted. Still we still feel the day is a mess and we rush to the grocery store. Didn’t do much of that either when we were wasted. Then we go grab a pizza with our spouse or our partner, or maybe just by ourselves. And we were smart. We didn’t spend all we had. We feel anxious and we lie down. This is the mess of living recovery one day at a time. We do the dishes. Then we wind down and relax. We thank God for this messy day. This is a beautiful mess.
