Blog entry for:

... of the fellowship to accept **life on its own terms,** whatever those terms may be on any given day. and those terms for me today, is that i am going to be late for whatever i need to do.
however the reading was not quite about that, and this is one of those reading where i just say -- DUH! of course, sugar coating and painting the world in recovery as something it is not, only hurts those young in recovery, as well as those of us who have been around for a bit of time. life is what it is, there will be moments of great joy, and times when things are just easy, whether or not you are an addict or something else. there are also times when there is pain, darkness, and nothing seems to go the way someone wants it, that two is part of the full experience of life. honestly, i would not have it any other way. do not get me wrong, i love when everything seems to just flow without any effort on my part, and i do get frustrated when no matter how great my effort, everything is wrong! however, one of the gifts of recovery, i have been given is the ability to experience life in all of its glory and pageantry, and that gift allows me to see the **bad** times for what they -- just another day of living the human condition and those times, like everything else, will pass, and are nothing for me to use over.
but anyhow, i am running late, so i will just sign-off for and now and say that today, i can accept the good with the bad, my job is to do my best to remove the value judgments i attach to events in my life and accept that they just are!

∞ DT ∞