Those of us living in one day at a time recovery feel lucky that we got to surrender. Surrender helped us to understand our brokenness and in this understanding we became healthy enough to think rationally. Our best efforts and best thinking could not make us rational. We were restored to sanity by something more powerful than us and we soon sought to live according to ways we had never lived before which was life was not only about us and getting buzzed or wasted. It was about caring for others. To do so we learned we had to forgive. Not only ourselves but others too. We were learning to be human beings and many years after making such decisions we were still continuing to learn how to be people. We became people who love living. This was a total psychic change for most of us and is a refreshing new reality. We forgive ourselves and we forgive others for being impaired people. We were blind and deaf for many years. When we forgive the wrongs, real or imagined, we no longer need to throw stones. We find an all encompassing freedom for ourselves and others. Peace.
