"The Truth" "Everything we know is subject to revision, especially what we know about the truth." Basic Text, page 91
Many of us thought we could recognize "The Truth." We believed the truth was one thing, certain and unchanging, which we could grasp easily and without question. The real truth, however, was that we often couldn't see the truth if it hit us square in the face. Our disease colored everything in our lives, especially our perception of the truth - in fact, what we "knew" about the truth nearly killed us. Before we could begin to recognize truth, we had to switch our allegiance from our addiction to a Higher Power the source of all that is good and true.
The truth has changed as our faith in a Higher Power has grown. As we've worked the steps, our entire lives have begun to change through the healing power of the principles of recovery. In order to open the door for that change, we have had to surrender our attachment to an unchanging and rigid truth.
The truth becomes purer and simpler each time we encounter it. And just as the steps work in our lives every day - if we allow them - our understanding of the truth may change each day as we grow.
Just for today: I will open my eyes and my heart to changes brought about by the steps. With an open mind, I can understand the truth in my life today. pg. 303
what i know to be truth today?? i am STILL an addict i am not the same even as i was yesterday :)
and that i can not base todays ability to stay clean on yesterdays recovery. next question?? what am i doing for my recovery today?? starts with SURRENDER
I was faced with some deep truth yesterday by chance, with a little help from a friend I now undersand more about a situation in my life that I had not seen before being shown. It was humbling to admitt she was right I got angry LOL but not for very long just one day LOL
I let my higher power show me today more and more truths and its life changing especially when I accept and surrender to those truths I am less rigid most definetly .
