RECOVERY REQUIRES ACCEPTING RESPONDSIBILITY

Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Recovery is a lifestyle. The revelation that is recovery pronounces those in recovery as ones to watch. Recovery produces persons of truth, of a happy spirit. Recovery produces pillars of the community. Those in Recovery possess the gift of living truthfully. Those in recovery become leaned upon. There words are expected and desired. The recovery lifestyle commits one to being a person the community looks up to and depends upon. Recovery demands one show responsibility to the wealth of truth they bring to the community. Recovery proves the existence of GOD. Recovery demonstrates GOD rewards those whom he wants. Living a recovery lifestyle demands we shoulder the responsibility of our recovery by respecting the GOD of our understanding and not discrediting his  decision to save our miserable lives. Listen as Trent declares that recovery requires we accept responsibility.

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Welcome to the Recovery is a Process of Decisions podcast. This is Trent Thomas, your peer support recovery specialist. This week's episode is entitled, Recovery Requires Accepting Responsibility. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Recovery is a process of decisions. Life is one decision after another. In the process of living, we decide to recover. In the process of recovery, we decide to submit and admit that we made bad decisions. In recovery, we admit while under the power of addiction, we made one bad decision after another. Recovery demands that we decide to do better. To make better decisions, we must learn better. The fact is we can only do what we know. To do better, we must learn better. To learn better, we must go to those that know what we do not. In recovery, the best teachers are those that have walked the walk. Recovery is laced with those that possess lived experience. To live a life of recovery means we accept that we suffer from the disease of addiction and we have submitted to a life of recovery. In order to sustain our recovery, we must give what we have learned away free of charge. This becomes an arm of our daily life to help someone other than ourselves. To keep what we got, we must give it away. Recovery is a belief system. It is a way of life. Recovery is based on truth. Truth is from God. God is truth. Everything God does is truthful. God cannot lie. Truth is the treatment for the disease of addiction. Recovery begins with God. There is no recovery without God. More truth means more God. More God, more recovery. God not only initiates recovery, he also sustains recovery each and every day. God forgives all. We must learn to forgive ourselves. Forgiveness begins with accepting responsibility for the many mistakes and bad decisions we have made. We must pronounce and announce our guilt for the bad decisions we have made in the past. For me, when confronted with my past wrong decisions, I simply state guilty as charged. Did I lie, guilty as charged? Did I steal, cheat, use, drink, drugs, women, guilty as charged. For all my past misdeeds and bad decisions, I admit and submit to the God of my understanding for forgiveness. This is important. I submit to do better, to improve. I pledge to strive every waking moment to improve. Every day I strive to just do better. With recovery comes a dynamic acceptance of responsibility of all past mistakes and a huge determination to do better. At the end of the day, that is all we can do. We cannot change the mistakes of our past, but we can improve. We can strive to just do better. This is the daily challenge of sustained recovery. As humans, we are prone to make mistakes. However, we can decide to not make willful decisions to lie, steal, cheat, or live a life of dishonesty. We can decide to improve, to make better, more honest, less deceitful decisions in all our affairs, a life of helpfulness and positive energy. We could decide to not backbite or gossip or make fun of the disabled. We can decide to help those who are unfortunate and in need. We could decide to help all those who earnestly and wholeheartedly ask for help. We could decide to take the best care of our physical body as possible. We could decide to live a healthy, less stressful life. We could decide to hold back anger and be slow to show angry intentions. We could decide to measure our words in response to others' hate or angry verbs. We can decide to not show prejudice intentions. We could decide to treat all we meet with respect in a happy spirit. We could decide to repel jealous ideations and envious responses. We can measure and repel our lustful eyes. There is a surah in the Quran that I live by. It states, so that your eyes do not deceive you. Go home and enter your wife with ease. Lingering in lustful eyes portray imagination and cultivate a belief that someone has something better than what you have at home. This Torah is wise in its depiction of letting your eyes deceive you and its admonition to close down that imaginative thought and go home and beseech that which God has already given you. With this advice, you can avoid the pitfall of immoral activity. Gone are the self-imposed consequences of STDs or unwanted pregnancies, as well as the guilt and shame derived from violating your commitment to your monogamous relationship. For me, I thoroughly understand that the woman was made to be desirous to the man. The woman's very shape and structure is designed to be inviting to the man. Her very essence is by design meant to captivate a man. Her voice and softness is created to be alluring to men. A man will do well to shut down his wandering eye as soon as possible and go home to the one whom you have chosen. Recovery demands accountability in all our relationships. Lying to the one you have entered into a committed relationship is a failing and a relapse. The consequences can be as severe or even more so than having a drink or using drugs. Often the deceit encountered in cheating often leads to depression and unmanageable guilt. This guilt is often met with a return to use to eradicate the mental anguish caused by the guilt and shame of being unfaithful. What looks easy and free most often is neither, and the price paid is extremely high. Recovery demands a responsibility to ourselves and those we come to care for. Recovery begins with the love we must have for ourselves. We cannot love or care about anyone else until we learn to care for and love ourselves. We must accept the responsibility we create because of our path of recovery. Recovery as a lifestyle grows roots in our community. These roots feed the community for us. Others begin to depend upon and rely on us in our positive energy and lie-free input. The truth you live by has tremendous value to all those you come in contact with. You have a responsibility in recovery that is profound and cherished. We would do well as we walk the walk to be mindful that we are being watched and leaned upon for truth. In recovery, we all are proof that God exists and meets out regards and rewards to all those whom He wants. We should never disrespect the God of our understanding by not shouldering the responsibility of recovery with pride and truth. This is Trent Thomas, and I would like to thank you for listening to another episode of Recovery is a Process of Decisions podcast. You can now subscribe to this podcast and receive rich deep episodes for our subscribers only, as well as a private personal email account to communicate directly with me for comments and show suggestions. Also, would like to invite everyone to check out my personal self-help peer support recovery website at transnetrecover.com. Join me on the road to sustain recovery with my Recovery Jumpstart program. I also would like to offer my ebook publication entitled Recovery, The Seven Steps to Sustain Recovery to anyone who is looking for a formula to sustain recovery from someone who has walked the world. This ebook is available at Amazon.com. As always, your inspiring comments can be left at transnetrecover.com forward slash podcast. Please feel free to follow me on Facebook and Instagram. Thank you and have a blessed day.