Daily Reprieve

From Today’s Daily Reflections;

For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.   (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 87)

In recovery, and through the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, I learn that the very thing I fear is my freedom. It comes from my tendency to recoil from taking responsibility for anything: I deny, I ignore, I blame, I avoid. Then one day, I look, I admit, I accept. The freedom, the healing and the recovery I experience is in the looking, admitting and accepting. I learn to say, “Yes, I am responsible.” When I can speak those words with honesty and sincerity, then I am free.

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More is expected from the healthy man than from the hospital patient.  The better my health, the greater others come to depend on me.  After I know how to get well I am not protecting by the mantel of ignorance.  I am responsible for my life and its impact on others.

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