Many people living in one day at a time recovery live what can be known as an experienced life. We had the opportunity to experience the good and the bad and we can say that sometimes the good was really good and sometimes the bad was really bad. With such experience we should have learned to be non-judgemental people because for most of us judgement without grace or mercy is a self-righteous endeavor. What many of us believe is that we are no better or no worse than any other person. It’s the whole idea of not casting the first stone. We all need a little grace and mercy sometimes, even while in recovery. We all know that there are no saints amongst us. When we learn this we get to understand we are not living victoriously in spiritual warfare. What we are learning is that we are just people, sometimes broken people who have surrendered to the idea that we are to remain totally abstinent from taking that first one and this requires petitioning for and accepting the help from those we are akin with and from what some of us call God, the spirit, or the universe. At times we have been rescued by divine intervention. We know this. We are recipients of the love, grace, and mercy of the other. We often call this a God thing. We understand that our life experience gives us the ability to help others. We drop our self-righteous stones and lend a hand. Ten, twenty, or thirty years are not that long ago. Peace.
