Addiction

As our illness progressed, we became empty and hollow. We humans need real connections with other people, our Higher Power, our values, and ourselves. Our illness leads us to betray all of these connections. Addiction gives us an illusion of connection as long as we stay in the trance. When the trance ends, the emptiness appears, and we get scared and run back to the high. The end result of addiction is total aloneness, total emptiness. Our addiction pushes away the things that feed our hearts and souls.

Recovery asks that we open up our hearts and souls to be filled again. But to do this, we must face the emptiness of our

 addiction and then ask for help. We need to ask others and our Higher Power to help and teach us how to be humans instead of addicts.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, help me be open to the teachings, tasks, and gifts of recovery. Fill me with your presence.

Today's Action

Today I will make a list of ways that my drinking or drugging emptied my heart and soul. I will share my list with my sponsor or another recovery friend.

from the book God Grant Me: More Daily Meditations