Recovery Meditations ~ Working It ~ One Day at a Time ~ August 4, 2010

~ WORKING IT ~

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"For the things we have to learn before

we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle

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When I walked into my first Twelve Step

meeting I had absolutely no idea what

was going on. I knew nothing about the

program, the Steps, or how to work

them. But I listened, asked questions,

and I learned.


One of the most important lessons I

learned was that I couldn't just sit

around waiting for recovery to take

place. I couldn't just ask God for help

and do nothing else. I had to put feet

to my prayers, as they say. I had to do

something. So ... slowly, with the help

of my sponsor, I took the first

Step. And then the second.

I found that I could talk a good game

around program folks because I'd learned

the lingo. But the saying, "you've got

to walk the talk" tells me that I have

to do it. I can't just speak my recovery

into existence. I found I didn't have

recovery until I began working the

Steps. It was only when I started "the

doing" that the real learning -- and the

real recovery -- began.


ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .


I will take what I learn about recovery and put it into practice ... I'll work the program.