It is important for those who live with concurrent disorders to live life this day. This is the beginning of recovery and one of the main factors in retaining it. This way of life has been a prominent ideal in humanity’s existence for many centuries. We know we cannot live in the past because it keeps us from the gift of this day. We know we cannot live in the future because it also keeps from the gift of this day. The past can keep us living in regret and remorse. Living in the future can cause fear and anxiety. These dimensions of existence need for us to give ourselves, other people, and also institutions, the gift of grace. In doing so maybe we will find the gift of the present moment, and in this moment we will find the gift of this day. We know that we will remember, but perhaps we will find the gift of hope. We know we will worry, but perhaps we will find gift of being at ease. And in this we find the gift of recovery, living in this day, one day at a time.
