A Day In Recovery

What’s a day look like?

I’ve been free of drugs and alcohol for over 20 years. God saved me and healed me. He set me on the right path.

I want to show what I do everyday and why.

I wake up and pray. I do my hygiene stuff and speak God’s promises into my life.

I eat a small healthy breakfast.

I then do my work. Whether it’s a job, ministry, purpose or fulfilling goals. I get to work on it. I fill my time with good useful activities so that I’m not filling my time with drugs and alcohol. 

I addict myself to God, service and good things.

I then eat a small healthy lunch.

I then go back to work or study. Again I am filling my time with goodness. Not drugs, alcohol, parties and people who drag me down.

I cook or eat a nice filling healthy dinner. I’m not saying I don’t eat junk. Because I do. But I try to make it less. If you eat healthy small breakfasts and lunches it gives more leeway for dinner.

Why do I focus on food? Because what you consume plays a big part in your health and recovery. If you are careful with eating healthy things it will give you pause when it comes to consuming drugs and alcohol. If you care about your health, it will help you overcome addiction.

It’s the same for working out. Why try to be fit and healthy. When you’re destroying your body, mind and spirit with drugs and booze?

After dinner spend time with good family and friends or doing clean things you enjoy. I’m watching shows with my wife and dog in the evening. Things I never did as a drunk. When I drank I would have started slamming beers the minute I got home from work, then be at the bars causing trouble by seven PM. I’m thankful I no longer care about such things. I spend time building a good life.

Stay away from people who bring you down. Just don’t go there. Don’t go to places that tempt you. Do meetings or church or work.

Spend time praying. When I say praying I mean telling God about your struggles and seeking His help.

Prayer is not always a one and done thing. I’ve been praying and confessing my struggles for years. What I have found is that over time, those struggles go away. 

Talking to God about it brings it up between you and Him. Then, He moves to help you and gives you ideas and more desire to overcome.

As you get stronger, you see that prayer and your recovery is working. This helps build more faith in you. This helps grow more of a desire to overcome. You see God moving, and you learn to trust Him more.

Does all of this help you overcome addiction?

It does help. But ultimately it’s you going day by day refusing to drink or use. Every day.

But, it gets better.

And what this routine does is help build the life you need after addiction. It prepares good things to keep you straight for the long haul.

If you just magically quit using today, and was free. What would you do with your time and life?

See?

Even if you are struggling and barely making it, or even failing. You are preparing for the day you succeed. The fact that you can see a future day of freedom is building faith to finally get there. And that helps give you strength to overcome.

You are filling your time and life with good things as you work on recovery. Then, as you build everyday you will discover that you and God built a life you can be proud of.

And you’ll be free. 

Free with a good life to match.

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