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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.