I hope that wherever you are, you know Recovery is with you.
Have you heard the saying, “Begin with the end in mind”?
In Recovery, the end isn’t simply getting back what we have lost. It is discovering a new self through the journey. Until we realize that our old way of living is no longer working, we may never search for the deeper source of healing—the deep pool or the river that is always flowing.
Alcoholics Anonymous calls this source God, or a Higher Power. I like to think of it as the “Quarter” at the bottom of the pool. It is always there, waiting for us to discover it.
Radical Acceptance in Recovery means being honest with ourselves. Some things in our lives we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. That can be hard to accept.
Even when we know this, we still want life to make sense. We want order and clear answers. Yet sometimes we need to listen to what is happening inside us and learn from what provokes us to take action.
Can we remember the moment when we first turned toward Recovery? Our old ways of coping and behaving could no longer work. For many of us, this became a defining moment. We began to see our shortcomings in a new way. We started looking at life from a larger canvas, and somehow, we found it was enough—perhaps even more than enough.
This has been true for me, just as I have heard it from others in my Recovery community. Over time, we may even find ourselves thanking God, or our Higher Power, for the darkness, drinking, or trauma we once wanted to escape.
It was a huge price to pay. But for me, nothing less would have broken down my false self and opened my heart to love.
We often think Recovery is about moving only upward and forward. I suppose that can seem true if we believe we are the sole owners of our lives. But that way of thinking does not serve us for long because it is not the truth.
Recovery is not about controlling every step of the journey. It is about surrendering to something deeper than ourselves and trusting that healing can come through both the light and the darkness.
If Recovery is truly good news, then it must lead us toward something greater than simply getting our old lives back. It becomes a gift—a new way of living, loving, and being. And in the end, that is a victory worth receiving with a grateful heart.
Remember, Recovery is happening right now, in this moment.
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