Many people who are living in one day at a time recovery understand the reality of being prodigals. The reality of being a prodigal is sometimes, even after many years of recovery, we are so caught up in the false reality of our own stories we actually believe the lies that we tell ourselves in order that we may protect the status quo of our shadow-selves thereby believing we are way more important than we really are. In other words we become little control freaks trying to manage the rooms of recovery and make them havens for our own little egos because we have the need to be in control of our own lives and our own one day at a time recovery. We say, “Welcome prodigals! Welcome to the real world. Do you see where you are. You are here and you are here because of grace. Nothing else has brought you here.” Because of this understanding we will see we have done nothing to find recovery. It found us. Be humble prodigal. Peace.
