It’s our 6-month anniversary today. Today our blog is 6 months old!
And….
I got the article in late.
How classic is that? Right when we seem to be “finally getting” recovery, hitting our stride, we suddenly hit a roadblock.
I can give you a bunch of excuses. I just came down with COVID. I forgot to add it to my calendar. It’s somebody else’s fault! It must be! It has to be somebody else, right?
Or, I can choose the recovery route:
1. I am powerless over this mistake. I made it, and I’m powerless over it. It has made my life unmanageable
2. I have come to believe that with my Higher Power, I can make a sane decision now.
3. Make a decision to do what God wants next; which is:
4. Make a fearless moral inventory on how I can take accountability for my actions, now and going forward.
5. Tell it to God and another person
6. Becoming willing to surrender my forgetfulness
7. Surrender my forgetfulness
8. Make a list of those I have harmed
9. Apologize to them
10. (see 1-9)
11. Pray to God to help me take the right next action
12. Write this article, and put the next article on my calendar.
This is the best map I can write you. The truest blueprint for the road to freedom. It’s those same old Steps, all 12 of them, and they work in every possible situation. Even this one!
So here’s to 6 months of weekly articles, of addicts hitting deadlines, of addicts writing their ESH, of addicts miraculously acting like something other than addicts! Addicts acting like, no – truly being – human beings, becoming a part of the real world!
Recovery isn’t about being perfect, and never making mistakes. It’s about owning them and correcting them. It’s about bringing God into them. And so, congratulations to us all! We truly are on the road to freedom, “one article at a time”.
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