Writings of Recovery

“The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.” AABB pg.83

The sentence before in the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book reads, “so we clean house with the family asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness, and love.”

Could it be this simple? This easy? To meet with my Creator every morning and learn the way of patience, tolerance, kindness, and love; separating it from my own distorted thinking over these principles?

Distortion that originated from generational dysfunction; pattens passed down in childhood.

Distortion that presented itself as truth as I become aware and transition from codependency, addiction, and all the ugly patterns that go with it.

Not a theory. I have to live it. A spiritual life! Prioritized above a life of rumination and over-analyzation. No more living in a world of “what if” and “if only”, all the while remaining paralysed in body, mind, and spirit.

For Today, dear Creator, show me how to go through today, focusing on how to be patient with myself and others, to be tolerant with myself and others, to love myself and others. And not just the how to, but to actually walk it out. And there it is. There lies the true act of surrender. Where the rubber meets the road when it comes to faith and trust in the reality of spirituality; not in the theory.