Things
Are Good
Things are good. Saying that
sounds so ho-hum but looking back at my journey in CoDA the last two and a half
years I know how much it has taken to reach “things are good”. “Things are
good” doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges and problems to be solved but their
weight is so much lighter these days. I’m resilient in a way I’ve never
experienced. Other people’s problems are theirs and I am detached in a way that
still leaves room for love and warmth.
I walk around my urban
community and take drives in the country. The autumn leaves emanate a glowing
energy like a wild festival of color and dance to celebrate their summer growth
and hard work before a winter of rest and recovery. It mirrors my cyclical
journey through the Twelve Steps season after season because there is always
more to learn, and the flora and fauna come back each spring in a slightly
different way bringing more understanding of how to live here in myself. I’m
using the tools of recovery, like raking the leaves, planting fall bulbs,
mulching the beds without yet conceiving what I’ll plant in the spring.
Things are good because I have
accumulated tools, because I live in the cycle of recovery, and I dance in the
fallen leaves like today is all that matters.
Patsy C. 10/27/2024
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