A ProcrastiKNITor's Recovery: January 24th

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Meme of the Day: 24JAN17

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"Sometimes we save to disconnect to reconnect with what matters."

Today I've been super busy with life. I'm trying out the blogger mobile app to see if I could still blog while I am on the go. It's not looking like the meme is loading but I guess I will see how it all turned out later. I choose this meme because it resonates the daily meditation for me.

Although personally I feel like I have to agree to disagree with today's reading... it does not match me. My personal integrity is still intact and it is the only thing I've managed to keep and maintain in this journey of recovery, I don't lie because I can't remember them to keep them straight and feel like it's a waste of brain power, I prospered in my career and personal life, I was happy, independent and my isolation and loss of relationships and self didn't happen until I choose to get sober. I guess todays reading does ring true for many of us alcoholics and addicts from the stories that are shared in the halls of anonymous fellowship.

Reconnect with your life. Live and let live. Let go and let God, as you know it. Blessed be.

Update: the blog publish failed on the blogger app. Didn't even save it as a draft. I'm posting from chrome mobile.

January 24th: From Isolation to Connection

"Our disease isolated us...
Hostile, resentful, self-centered, and self-seeking, we cut ourselves off from the outside world."

Basic Text pg. 3-4

Addiction is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. We hid. We lied. We scorned the lives we saw others living, surely beyond our grasp. Worst of all, we told ourselves there was nothing wrong with us, even though we knew we were desperately ill. Our connection with the world, and with reality itself, was severed. Our lives lost meaning, and we withdrew further and further from reality.

The NA Program is designed especially for people like us. It helps reconnect us to the life we were meant to live, drawing us out of our isolation. We stop lying to ourselves about our condition; we admit our powerlessness and the unmanageability of our lives. We develop faith that our lives can improve, that recovery is possible, and that happiness is not permanently beyond our grasp. We get honest; we stop hiding; we "show up and tell the truth"; no matter what. And as we do, we establish the ties that connect our individual lives to the larger life around us.

We addicts need not live lives of isolation. The Twelve Steps can restore our connection to life and living - if we work them.

Just for today: I am a part of the life around me. I will practice my program to strengthen my connection to my world.