Recovery Works When You Work It!
When I give spiritual talks involving recovery, people sometimes raise their hands and say “That’s great, but it doesn’t work.” I listen to their story and then I say “Let’s clarify something: Is it that it (recovery) doesn’t work, or that you didn’t work it?” Silence ensues and then the person usually says sheepishly “I didn’t work it.” Information and awareness are great to have. They are necessary. We can’t begin to understand ourselves or our old ingrained patterns of behavior until we have awareness of how we have been hurting ourselves and others, and information about healthier patterns of behavior. But information is just information and it’s easily forgotten if we don’t put it to good use. Recovery is a lifetime process. There’s no end to it until we breathe our last breath. It works when we work it. Working a recovery program for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, a few months or even a few years isn’t going to cut it. The moment we stop working it, we gradual...