Some memes

the most incredible thing that has happened over the past six months for me, is that the JFT readings, the basic text and our group readings now seem to have taken on a whole new meaning. i have experienced this shift before but never to the depth i am feeling now. this morning's reading, for instance, is about sharing the gift of recovery that i have received with others. although i have been doing this for what seems forever, how i share it and what i share has changed. i now offer only my experience strength and hope, leaving my opinions and advice unspoken. i allow those with whom i share my gift to form their own opinions, make their own decisions and succeed or fail on their own. their success and failure is not a function of what i carry, but rather a function of how i carry it. i cannot get an addict clean through my own will power. i cannot keep a struggling addict clean no matter how hard i try. what i can do is let them know what worked for me and offer them the promise that even they can stay clean, lose the desire to use and find a new way to live. all i can offer is my experience and the fact that if an old garbage can junkie like me can get and stay clean for an extended period of time, so can they, one day at a time. the rest is up to each individual to whom i am sharing my recovery with and a loving force that is more powerful than the both of us and our collective diseases.
and for me that is more than enough today.
∞ DT ∞