Knowing Peace

[roverl0616]

We all had to be fighting something before we got into recovery and for most of us we didn't even know what our battle was about. For all of us having and knowing peace is a new and wonderful thing that not all of us are sure we want any part of when it starts to come our way in recovery. Those who have this problem of ours are some of the only ones who will ever be able to know what it is like to have a battle that's going on inside of us. It was this battle that we were all fighting that we didn't know about that we all had come to learn about through being in recovery. And though many of us wish we never had had this battle to begin with, we now know that it is because of this battle that we are able to find peace. People who don't have our problem only know what it's like not to have this battle; they're not able to know the peace that we all found through having it. This is the great thing that recovery does for all of us who do have this problem and something that others who don't have our problem will never be able to know the peace we have found because of having it. After we start recovery our problem stays with us and continues. We'll always have it for as long as we live, but with recovery none of us have to be fighting it any longer and will always be able to know peace because of us having it.