Writings of Recovery

I am grateful I am not the same person I was this time last year. I pray I am not the same person I will be this time next year.

I have emotionally and spiritually grown so much since coming into recovery. I now have hope, where once I was hopeless.

I now have a snapshot of who my Higher Power is and who they purpose me to be. I am seeing and feeling this alignment happening. I also know I am not there yet, but there are moments of clarity that validates this path of recovery.

The principles of the steps: Honesty, Hope, Faith, Courage, Integrity, Willingness, Humility, Self-Discipline, Love, Perseverance, Spiritual Awareness, and Service.

These are the things I am going after. These over anything and everything else. These now have a foothold in my soul, but I want them anchored, and then infused, into all my being.

The 12 step recovery creates the blueprint to make this possible.

Thank you, Higher Power, for the 12 steps and thank you for the gifts of the program. There’s no place I would rather be than here in your arms in recovery. I thank you for the recovery yet to come and I look forward to the new awarenesses, healing, growth, and surrender.

As grateful as I am for the gifts of the steps, my heart overflows with gratitude for the recovery I know is yet to come. I don’t exactly know how it is going to look, but I do know it is going to be good. I am coming to trust my Higher Power over my self will/ego and anticipate the good things to come, even when there is pain.

Pain in the parting of letting go of what no longer serves me in alignment with my Higher Power’s direction and leading. I am ready for this next chapter in recovery, and where I am not, I pray Higher Power be with me in making me ready.