A Vision of Hope

[phoenix]

I know I'm a day late with this,but I really like it.


Just For Today
June 12 A vision of hope

"Yes, we are a vision of hope..." Basic Text, p. 51

By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had
lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs. We believed we
were destined to die from our disease. What an inspiration it was
then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addicts
who were staying clean! A clean addict is, indeed, a vision of hope.

Today, we give that same hope to others. The newcomers see
the joyful light in our eyes, notice how we carry ourselves, listen
to us speak in meetings, and often want what we have found. They believe in us until they learn to believe in themselves.

Newcomers hear us carry a message of hope to them. They tend
to see us through "rose-colored glasses," They don't always recognizeour struggle with a particular character defect or our difficulties with improving our conscious contact with our Higher Power. It takes them time to realize that we, the "old-timers" with three or six or ten years clean, often place personalities before principles or suffer from some other unsightly character defects. Yes, the newcomer sometimes places us on a pedestal. It is good, though, to openly admit the nature of our
struggles in recovery for, in time, the newcomer will be walking through those same trials. And that newcomer will remember that others walked through that difficulty and stayed clean,

Just for today: I will remember that I am a beacon to all who follow in my path, a vision of hope. pg. 170
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1991 by World Service Office Inc.