“We must use what we learn or we will lose it, no matter how long we have been clean.”
Basic Text, p. 85
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After putting some clean time together, some of us have a
tendency to forget what our most important priority is. Once a week or
less we say, “I’ve gotta get to a meeting tonight. It’s been...” We’ve
been caught up in other things, important for sure, but no more so than
our continued participation in Narcotics Anonymous.
It happens gradually. We get jobs. We reunite with our families.
We’re raising children, the dog is sick, or we’re going to school at
night. The house needs to be cleaned. The lawn needs to be mowed. We
have to work late. We’re tired. There’s a good show at the theater
tonight. And all of a sudden, we notice that we haven’t called our
sponsor, been to a meeting, spoken to a newcomer, or even talked to God
in quite a while.
What do we do at this point? Well, we either renew our commitment
to our recovery, or we continue being too busy to recover until
something happens and our lives become unmanageable. Quite a choice! Our
best bet is to put more of our energy into maintaining the foundation
of recovery on which our lives are built. That foundation makes
everything else possible, and it will surely crumble if we get too busy
with everything else.
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Just for today: I can’t afford to be too busy to recover. I will do something today that sustains my recovery.
This could be one of the worst songs ever... lol
