Those of us who live in one day at a time recovery eventually experience the reality of grace. We lived troubled lives and didn’t understand the ramifications such lives had on other people. We often made attempts to amend our wrongs and many of us did so in an effort to clear up the wreckage of our past. More often than not making amends were done so we could live our lives as free people. We wanted to be joyous and happy with nothing holding us back from such desired endeavors. For some of us there were instances where we could not make amends, and other times our attempts at amends failed. Our reality believed we had done our part but deep down we realized that we had caused harm to our fellow human beings. We began to understand that we weren’t just crossing completed amends off our lists. We were trying to repair the harms we had done to other people. Our selfish and self-centered selves cannot excuse these harms. All we can do is to try to not do such thing again. This is when we get to understand the reality of grace. When we understand the reality of grace we realize that we are not living our lives in recovery just for ourselves. We are attempting to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Thus we realize the importance of giving ourselves a break. In other words we are giving grace onto ourselves. Now that we are processing our lives with a clear view we realize we are not perfect and we never will be. What we realize is grace is important. One day at a time we stay clean and sober. It’s our reality. It’s the gift of grace.
