New Beginnings

I love the saying “Grace comes new each day.” It means that we have a chance to start anew. With each morning, we can begin to see ourselves, our lives, and the world around us with new eyes.

I have often said that recovery is the chance to have a new life without having to die. With motivation and support, we can make choices as we create a life that reflects our deepest values and which shares our unique beings.

The Shakers, a religion that has since died out,  created a song “‘Tis a Gift to be Simple.” A recurring verse has the words, “‘Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be.” I find this line very reassuring. It means there is a place where each of us belongs. That maybe, just maybe, we were created because there is something specific that we are here to do.

Isn’t recovery essentially about recovering that core self who got lost somewhere among the adaptations, the traumas, the rejections, the seeking, and the giving up? Right now it is the “thing” to talk about recovery using the concept of connection. Isn’t recovery about connecting with our lost and wounded selves? Those parts of ourselves that were rejected by others, then by ourselves?

What have you let go of? What parts of yourself do you have difficulty embracing? Think about this and consider the possibility that you can love the parts of yourself you may have been considering unloveable for too many years. Shine your light brightly in your dark places. And rejoice in what you may find!

In peace,

Mary

 

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