Be Committed to Recovery

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Aug 4, 1999

Recovery is a simple process. We try to make it more complex than it needs to be. It cannot be hurried. Recovery and spiritual growth must unfold one day at a time. They advance in the quiet moments where we meet God and allow him or her to touch our hearts.

There are times and seasons in recovery. There are periods of rapid growth and intense excitement. But there are also periods of dryness, when progress is hard to attain and measure. It is our perseverance during those times that cements the progress we have made, that strengthens and deepens our character.

Here is the commitment necessary to recovery:

Recovery implies that something has gone wrong. We become entangled, stuck, bogged down, bound, broken. We have a need to be healed.

Recovery is a commitment to change. Change is a demanding process. It requires sacrifice. It requires time and repetitive action. There are no quick fixes in recovery.

Recovery means facing the truth about ourselves. Sometimes, that truth can be painful.

But it is also freeing.

Recovery means giving up our old destructive patterns and learning new life-giving patterns.

Recovery means taking responsibility for our lives. It is something painful and it takes time.

Each of us were given a life. We choose our lifestyle.

Do you have a commitment to a lifestyle of recovery?

How do we change?

One day at a time.
With help.
By going to meetings.
By admitting we have a problem.
By adjusting our personal relationships.
By depending on a higher power.
By giving service to others.

That is the purpose of love. To serve God and the people around us.

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