I don't always write this blog to reflect my group share...but today seemed a particularly good day for my sharing. Let this not be a stroke of my ego, but a reminder that I also return to this and read: especially on my bad days...when I don't feel like blogging, or working the steps...I return here to read my reminders. In the end, I only expect to use these tools myself, if someone else is helped by reading...just an added bonus for my 12th step: taking the message to others.
I strive during my recovery journey, to make the recovery process a lifelong commitment. Changing the way I think, the way I react, indeed...the way I LIVE. I first heard about the tools of recovery as a topic was being read at the meeting. And I simply looked at them as being tools you pick up when a job needs done: like a tool I should use to "fix my car"...but after listening more...I have come to realize that the TOOLS for recovery are the additions to make my life sane...Recovery will become a way of life...making the Tools: My tools for life and living. Much like brushing my teeth is a tool for hygene and the brush itself is a tool for accomplishing cleanliness: the tools of a meeting, or phone calls, or meditation: will become a part of my daily routines for the cleanliness of my "life"...helping to keep me sober.
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