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Day 5

The miracle of recovery

"The greatest undeveloped territory in the world lies under your hat." Anonymous.

Physicians have often been at a loss to explain how patients unable to benefit from the very best medical treatment sometimes recover completely from seemingly fatal illnesses. They admit that they're baffled about how spontaneous remission from cancer occurs. The best are forthright enough to say that although their treatment proved to be totally ineffectual, something very powerful was able to effect a miraculous recovery.

Christian Science practitioners attribute to God many phenomenal recoveries from all sorts of bodily and menat ills. In tribal cultures, shamans successfully heal patients through a combination of herbs and ritual chants and dances.

In all these cases both healer and patient acknowledge the existence of a power greater than human beings.

These phenomena also occure in recovery from obsessions, compulsions, and addictions. Where professionals have failed to effect recovery through either medicine or psychotherapy, a belief in some power greater than ourselves, as well as adherance to the guidelines and principles developedin these steps, make recovery not only possible but highly probable.

Today we can practice gratitude for all that we are and all that we have. We no longer dwell on the negatives for we are in partnership with a powerful guide.

Today's Step: My daily recovery proves that I am already in the care of a Higher Power.

Step by Step. Muriel ZInk