What's The Rush?

[MajestyJo]

What came to mind was ¨Was I am late, I am late, for a very important date...! I can not be late if I am living in today. Things happen for a reason, not always as we feel they should be. First things first is our recovery. Yes we need to meet our commitments, but if we cannot, then we need to get someone to substitute for us. I am not the important one, the message is. I do not have to be the one who carries it, especially if I can not carry a clear, clean message.

For so many years, I went through life with a false sense of responsibility. If I do not do it one way, I can do it another way, perhaps there is a purpose for me not being there, even though I will be enriched by it, my God often has other plans for me or He wants me to take care of myself.

When asked to do in today, I always say, ¨God Willing.¨ Maybe someone else needs to hear someone else’s truth.

There is no rush on the Steps, as long as you don’t stop doing them. People who relapse, are people who couldn’t take the time to do them or they got to 12, they thought they were done. We learn at different levels, and are not able to always able to deal with things right away. Two sisters who came into my group looked at Codependency at one year sober, I never got to address the topic until I was 5 years sober. That didn’t mean I didn’t qualify, it meant that I had more pressing issues to deal to stay clean and sober.