We can’t allow the stresses of the world to consume us. I’ve found in recovery that from time to time we feel like the weight of the world is sitting right on our shoulders, and for me that’s very real. But I have to remember that I’m not meant to carry that weight alone. I have to live one day at a time and trust in a power greater than myself. Those words became real to me in my early years of recovery when everything felt uncertain and the road ahead seemed dark.
There were times I didn’t know which way to turn, times I felt lost in my own thinking, but it wasn’t until I truly surrendered and turned my will and my life over to a higher power that things began to change. I started to see the light even in the middle of the struggle. I began to understand that I don’t have to control everything, and that faith can guide me when my own thinking leads me astray.
The truth is, no matter how hard life seemed, it always worked itself out the way it was supposed to. Every time I thought I wasn’t going to make it, I came out stronger, standing a little taller than before. Recovery has shown me that growth doesn’t happen all at once. Just like in life, we have to learn to crawl before we can walk, and sometimes even fall along the way. But with a higher power guiding me and the principles of recovery in my life, I know I’m never walking this path alone.
Good morning with love
Christopher W