Reflection
Most of you know about my recovery journey. I’ve learned so much from living a life of recovery.
In recovery, we learn:
- How to trust in a power greater than ourselves.
- How to let go of the past without shutting the door on it.
- How to live in the present by making the most of our moments.
- How to be excited about a future created by doing the next right thing, one decision at a time.
Facts
What we do with the past will most certainly play a part in determining our future.
Notice my second bullet point under what we learn from recovery–it says we let go of the past, but we don’t shut the door on it. This allows our past to catalyze our future instead of paralyzing it.
I’ve never shut the door on what addiction did to my family and me. I know the destruction I can cause when I am in an altered state, and I never want to go back to that. Remembering that particular piece of my past serves as a great impetus to doing what I need to do to stay clean one day at a time.
Living clean and sober is pretty simple; I do it by living this saying in everything I do…
I can’t; God can; I think I will let Him.
It’s pretty amazing to see what God can do with your life when you focus on living the above phrase one moment at a time.
Have you dealt with your past, or is your past still dealing with you?
Philippians 3:13-14, Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 43:18-19, Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
