Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Remember When
We can be positive that our active addiction was negative. — Anonymous
The memory of our First Step is a memory we want to keep always fresh in our minds. The First Step asks us to “remember when.”
We never leave our First Step. It is current history. It is now. We will hear in meetings someone tell a story of relapse. “After three months, I went out. After six months … After one year”
We never outgrow our First Step. In fact, we never have more than one day of abstinence. We all have one more relapse in us, but do we have one more recovery? We go to meetings first and foremost to remember who we are and what it used to be like. When we want to go to a meeting, we can walk; when we don’t, we should run.
I will always “remember when.” When I forget about my First Step, I am destined to repeat it again.
Hazelden Foundation
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