Most people living in one day at a time recovery realize how important it was for us when we got to surrender. Surrendering meant we no longer had to fight the battle of trying to control what ever it was that gave us ill-lasting effects even though our intentions had been to get pleasure. The pleasure it gave us was short-lived, if at all. And the ill-lasting effects owned us. The phenomenon of craving was something we were certain to experience. We hit our bottoms using when we were using when we didn’t want to and we were also spending money that we didn’t have. Many of us found abstinence in a controlled environment. We surrendered to the idea that we would never be able to control our usage and that for us to use was to die. We would wage battle with it no-more one day at a time. Addiction had kicked the crap out of us. We called out to God, the spirit or the universe – and we reached out to others in recovery. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and that our lives were a mess. We started to believe that something greater than us could stop our irrational or insane thinking and we decided to let some form of a higher power (God, the spirit or the universe) be our guide. Our reality became if we needed professional help we got it. We got to experience the beginning of the journey of one day at a time recovery. We got to surrender. Peace.
