Faith

Each day clean and sober the universe continues to teach me. Yesterday morning I saw a young man outside having his morning smoke. It was obvious from looking at him that he was having a rough time of it and that he was at least hung over from the night before. I thanked my Higher Power for reminding me where I can be in a heart beat if I make the decision to pickup again. 


When I first got clean I lived in the delusion that living life clean and sober was going to be smooth and easy. The reality is that it is smooth and easy, however when we are hitting the bumps in the road, that throw us this way and that we forget that, we get to be grateful we are even here on the road. Recently our ride has been filled with deep trenches and many bumps. I get to practice every day to re-member the lessons the Universe is teaching me and that as long as I am breathing and clean it is a great day.


We all have this tool box called recovery. The question of the day is are we taking the tools out an applying them to living our life on life's terms? When we do apply the tools to living life, we get to stay in the now and have the experience and not place the limitations of our Ego's labels on the experience.