"Learn to put the fires out before you”

Once we we finally surrender to recovery convinced that we have no power over our addiction we have “tunnel vision”, all we want to do is stay clean and sober. We vowed to God “if He’d just keep us free we’d never ask for anything again. The pain of drinking and using has taken its toll and the white flag of surrender is flying high.

Unbeknown to us there was a whole lot more to recovery than just staying clean and sober, and even more important God had a plan for our lives. Unexpected miracles begin to appear. Bridges that seem impossible to fix was now being repaired. God gave us our families back or in some cases he gave us new families. We now have order stability and God was given us direction. Many of these things were un-heard of in our addiction.

Along with this new life we gain responsibilities, and those things we ran from in our old life are back but this time we have tools to deal with them that we’ve learned in recovery. Just for today we learn to “put out the fires before us” one situation at a time, one problem at a time and those problems that are beyond our means we learn to turn them over to God. We’ve learned how not to be overwhelmed, the sun will rise again tomorrow and we’ll try again. Today we fight against stress and worry. God has brought us from a mighty long way. We’ve been over paid!

Stay Woke: Take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself! (Mathew 6:34)