Good morning, brothers and sisters in recovery! Shame on ME for not having blogged in such a long time. Thank you for continuing to support my recovery blog. All of your emails and especially Murphy giving me that little push has gotten me back here typing this morning. Thank you!
I’ll do most of the “catch-up” part later and fill you in on all the mysteries and gloriousness (good and bad) that stem from program promises coming true in my life on another blog. Now let’s take a moment to honor those of us who have returned to their HP, our shared disease having taken them from us.
The light in them is neither dimmed nor extinguished, for they shine brighter today than ever when captured behind our fleshy masks.
Today’s Voices of Recovery was AWESOME! Has anyone else read it yet? I know Murphy did (who gets up at 6am EVERY morning???)!! “Denial of the truth leads to destruction” from pg 6 in the OA 12&12 is a GREAT reality check for me to read in the morning. Right after reading the reflections I looked up this sentence in the 12&12 and the next line reads, “Only an honest admission to ourselves of the reality of our condition can save us from our destructive eating.”
Most newcomers don’t realize that Step 1 sets us up for the “searching and fearless moral inventory” found in Step 4, the “asked Him to remove all our shortcomings” in Step 7, and the “continued to take personal inventory” found in Step 10. These four steps are known as the “honesty” steps. If we take the HOW (honesty, openmindedness, willingness) and assign them to the Steps – literally in the HOW order – then what you see is something like…
Step 1 – Honesty
Step 2 – Openmindedness
Step 3 – Willingness
Step 4 – Honesty
Step 5 – Openmindedness
Step 6 – Willingness
Step 7 – Honesty
…and so on until 12!
If I am to be translucent and work the “To Thine Own Self Be True” part of recovery, I have to live in my Truth as best I can. Just because I have a little bit or a lot of abstinent time under my belt does not mean that I am cured or better than admitting my struggles to my fellows in OA.
Thank you all for my continued abstinence. I’m grateful to be writing this blog today and I love all of you – my brothers and sister in recovery. See you at the next meeting!