Saturday 3 August 2019

One Day At A Time


WORKING IT


“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

-Aristotle

When I walked into my first Twelve Step meeting I had absolutely no idea what was going on. I knew nothing about the program, the Steps, or how to work them. But I listened, asked questions, and I learned.

One of the most important lessons I learned was that I couldn’t just sit around waiting for recovery to take place. I couldn’t just ask God for help and do nothing else. I had to put feet to my prayers, as they say. I had to do something. So … slowly, with the help of my sponsor, I took the first Step. And then the second.

I found that I could talk a good game around program folks because I’d learned the lingo. But the saying, “you’ve got to walk the talk” tells me that I have to do it. I can’t just speak my recovery into existence. I found I didn’t have recovery until I began working the Steps. It was only when I started “the doing” that the real learning — and the real recovery — began.

One Day at a Time …

I will take what I learn about recovery and put it into practice … I’ll work the program.

~ jar 
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