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Recovery gives us a vision of wanting what life wants. Yet while we can learn to see, we cannot always comprehend. Well, we may as well stop trying to comprehend. Perhaps to see is enough.
We can stop wasting our brain on this, because figuring out what the ultimate good is, is none of our business! How can we understand stories that Jesus told like the story of the Return of the Prodigal Son? Or the story of the Eleventh Hour Workers when Jesus told us that the first shall be last and the last shall be first? Does anyone you know truly comprehend these stories? Oh yes, we comprehend them, but can we accept the messages these stories convey! No! Can we truly say that we want what life wants? When we hear the story of the Prodigal Son's return, we side with the brother who feels wronged by his father. Not fair, we say! When we hear the story of the Eleventh Hour Workers, how many of us identify with the workers who are receiving the same pay as those who only worked a small fraction of the day? Not fair again! We all feel the pinch of these stories, yet we can't understand them fully; they are the teachings about the Ultimate Good that we will never truly comprehend. Can you imagine what it would be like to be so in the moment, as the Father of the Prodigal Son, or the Employer of the Vineyard, that you can hear the pauses between the words that someone is speaking? I often thought it was better to listen to the pauses than to some of the words. Recovery then, is a conversion. We are converting ourselves to be able to see the whole of life. Have no regrets about needing to recover from an addiction or the effects of someone else's addiction. If these things hadn't happened, we would not have been given even that fleeting vision that recovery rewards us with. Recovery then, my spiritual mentor once said, is just like cleaning your glasses!
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