Some people living in life one day at a time discover if they live their lives without extending grace they will end up being self-righteous resentful people. Some of us who live our lives in one day at a time recovery understand this and in understanding this we come to know that we have lost all claims to self-righteousness the moment we declared ourselves to be addicts. The more we hold onto our self-righteousness the more resentful we will become. Our fears, our uncertainties, and our need for control in all honesty reveal to us our claims to moral and spiritual superiority are nothing but the created fallacy of an egocentric delusional reality. At some point in our recovery this happens to all of us. We had to think this way to feel safe. It helped us deal with our fear of being or becoming weak. When we mature in recovery we accept it and in doing so we learn the gift of extending grace not only to ourselves but to others as well. We need to be vigilant. Some of us don’t live long enough to experience it. Bitterness is poison. We need to extend grace to get past it. Peace.
