I had to spend time in the car today so I was spent that time listening to an Andy Stanley’s the Senior Pastor at North Point in Alpharetta sermon called Destinations. Highly recommend it! In Andy’s gently confronting way he described how we can plan to go to Florida. We can pack, rent a house, get money from the ATM, pray about the trip and get on the car going North on I-75 and go in the opposite direction of our goal/destination. I find this to compare so true for addictions. You want to “not use, eat, control, fill in the blank” you go to meetings, you talk to your friends, you take classes, etc. But when the urge to use comes, you are standing there with the choice to go North or South which way on the interstate do you go. Recovery is so much about using the tools. You have to use the tools daily to get you on the road in the right direction and then keep you on the road in the right direction. Addictions are so insidious they are about daily reprieves. So often we make to 6 days of decisions that move us toward the goal but then spend one day moving in the opposite direction. Those choices become more and more devastating to us, our credibility with ourselves and with others. Then the shame and guilt horse show up and ride us that much further North on I-75.
What action are you taking today that moves you closer to your destination? Recovery is one day at a time, one choice at a time……
