A Daily Spiritual Look At Life

[MajestyJo]

"It takes time to grow into freedom. We have time yet.

- Anne Wilson Schaef


This covers a lot of ground. My freedom as a woman, who no longer lives her life through other people, who is not afraid to be her 'own' person is the biggest freedom I have gained in recovery.

I hear freedom from active addiction, and for the most part that is true, but that is the reason for the second statement. I may be free from my drug of choice, but I am always vulnerable about other substance coming into my life and want to take over." So I have to work on my freedom daily, to allow myself freedom from the bondage of self and the nature of my disease.

I never had a concept of "just one" in my life! I had no understanding of "one day at a time", which frees me from the mistakes and cares of yesterday, release of me from the self-imposed obligation of looking at tomorrow (because I have have is the past to base my projections on), which allows me to live in today free to enjoy life in the moment, in God's care with love and faith, instead of my manipulations, guilt, and fear.

There is no price high enough to give up my freedom of today.

Not sure what I was thinking when I wrote this in 2004, unless it was there was no way I would be willing to give up the freedom of recovery and go back into the bondage of self and active addiction again.

Realized early that I had already paid for the price of freedom. Freedom is a gift of recovery, not something I have to pay for. Having said that, the gift is priceless.