Change is a process, not an event.
~ Anonymous
Recovery from our disease does not happen overnight. We may experience an event that stops our compulsion immediately, but recovery is not an event. There are many more things to do than just stop. We hear some people relate great and dramatic moments of spiritual experience when they are utterly and completely changed. If this is so, we are happy for them. But most of us experience a gradual spiritual awakening.
If we do things in order, we can realize certain benefits. No one element equals change, but all the elements taken together are change. We did not grow up all at once. We will not recover all at once. There is a real joy in our Fellowship in watching this process in a newcomer. The slow process of change happens week after week. Sometimes it is like watching the hands of a clock; you don’t see them move, but time changes.
My recovery program is based on change as a process and not an event. If change is a single event, then it happens once and it’s over. That doesn’t allow for continuing growth.
©1990 by Anonymous, Published by Hazelden
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