I am occasionally asked, “How will I know I am Recovering and the 12 steps are helping me heal”?
A response is, “Refrain from being tempted to judge others”?
Recovery warns us about the consequences of judging others harshly and while this has a negative tone it may surprise us there is a positive invitation to grow in the virtues of charity, patience, and kindness to those around us. An invitation to live daily as a Recoveree as we take up our suffering and open ourselves to healing.
The 12 steps invite us time and time again to the healing life as a Recoveree. We can say every Recoveree wants to heal and experience the immense love revealed in the 12 steps. Life will no longer be the same for us. Our experience of Recovery is love and mercy which becomes grace and strength that transforms into a Recoverees mission.
With the grace of Recovery, we carry within us the love of self that radiates out to all; to the poor, those on the social and moral periphery of society, and even those we may be tempted to judge harshly. To be a Recoveree is to be attentive to the inner spiritual voice calling us to a new life of faith and express faith in acts of kindness, mercy, patience, and charity in our daily lives.
We are called as Recoverees to implement the 12 steps in our thoughts, words, actions, and refrain from judging others. How will we respond to this invitation today?
SuperHuman Being
Peace
Larry
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