Just For The Day
Just For The Day
#6 - August 16, 2025 - Momentum of Recovery
This daily reading discusses how spiritual growth is never static—it's either growing or decaying, just like physical exercise where muscles atrophy when not used. When we stand still in recovery, our progress loses momentum and gradually reverses.
• Creating new pathways requires conscious effort, like forging a new path off the beaten trail
• Relapse can be a learning opportunity, not the end of progress
• Red, yellow, and green behaviors form a target analogy for understanding addiction patterns
• Red behaviors are the addictive acts themselves
• Yellow behaviors are warning signs and triggers that lead toward addiction
• Green behaviors are positive actions that naturally move us away from addiction
• Creativity is essential—"creativity undeployed metastasizes in the body"
• Active participation means more than just attending meetings—find a sponsor, work the steps, seek service opportunities
• Spiritual growth looks different for everyone
If you're feeling stuck, go through the 12 steps again and ask yourself: Where have I stopped? What step needs my attention right now? Recovery isn't a destination but a daily journey.
Question: What daily practices keep you from backsliding in your recovery program?
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Welcome back to another episode of Just for the Day. I'm Jay and I'm an addict.
Speaker 2:I'm Diane and I'm codependent.
Speaker 1:August 16th.
Speaker 2:Halfway through August already. Time flies Years flying by.
Speaker 1:The title of the reading today is Up or Down, and the quote at the top reads this is our road to spiritual growth. We change every day. This growth is not the result of wishing, but of action and prayer.
Speaker 2:Our spiritual condition is never static. If it's not growing, it's decaying. If we stand still, our spiritual progress will lose its upward momentum Gradually. Our growth will slow, then halt, then reverse itself. Our tolerance will wear thin Our willingness to serve others. That's interesting, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I think there's some really interesting associations there between conflict and progress spiritually. We'll come back to that. Our only option is to actively participate in our program of spiritual growth. We pray, seeking knowledge greater than our own from a power greater than ourselves. We open our minds and keep them open, becoming teachable and taking advantage of what others have to share with us. We demonstrate our willingness to try new ideas and new ways of doing things, experiencing life in a whole new way. Our spiritual progress picks up speed and momentum, driven by the higher power we are coming to understand better each day.
Speaker 2:Up or down, it's one or the other, with very little in between. Where spiritual growth is concerned, recovery is not fueled by wishing and dreaming, we've discovered, but by prayer and action just for today.
Speaker 1:The only constant in my spiritual condition is change. I cannot rely on yesterday's program.
Speaker 1:Today I seek new spiritual growth through prayer and action pretty good yeah, a lot of themes here, so a couple of things that are kind of standing up to me. I think this is more. I mean, I'm going to go as far to say this is a human condition. We're static. We're either growing or decaying. If we're not growing, we're decaying and you know, if we're focused on holding on, chances are we are slowly declining. We should need to be focused on growth. So I really like that it called out that idea, and that's especially here I also. What I really love, too, is is this it's really highlighting a really key component of any recovery program is that it is a spiritual program you cannot do it.
Speaker 1:You cannot separate it from a spiritual journey, which is what it is, and then that spiritual journey moves, it's up and down, it's back and forth. It's. The only constant is my, in my spiritual condition is change.
Speaker 2:I really like that okay, so I'm going to comment on the first thing you said. You just did two different topics right there and I'd like to talk about that first one. First, um, where you talked about. This is a law that's not just for recovery, but it probably is everywhere. It's a human condition and I think that that's true. If we don't use a limb, it atrophies. Children who aren't taught language never have the ability to learn language or it's very seriously delayed, right that's right, and I think that this is true with our.
Speaker 2:They're relating it to our program, but we can also talk about, you know, anytime we're trying to fight our addictions or anytime we're trying to work on a bad habit, if we, if we don't continually work on it, it's going to fall back to where it was, but then usually even worse.
Speaker 1:That's right Right. And um, left alone, it will devolve back.
Speaker 2:Right and it actually reminds me of um, a habit path. So years and years ago I had a therapist who taught me about how to imagine this way of going through life, as though it is a beaten down path across a field and every time you know this trigger happens. This is the path you take and you got got so used to that path that as you're going into recovery, you're trying to change the path. You're trying to not go the way you've always gone and try to go a different way. Right.
Speaker 2:But what happens is, unless you're actively watching your compass, you're actively using your tools, you're actively remembering to take that new path, you're going to naturally fall back to that old path that's right and that's inevitable, and that's partly why the program is a lifelong program, which is really overwhelming for some people, especially new people in the program, to hear that once you're there, you're going to be there a long time because you've had this much time to develop these habits, and so that's what your beaten path is. And and not even just that, but sometimes your beaten path is generational. You're doing it because your parents did it and your grandparents did it, and as you're trying to break the cycle, you're still maybe in contact with your parents or your grandparents or you know all these different things. So you're fighting this inherited way of dealing with things or of responding to things, and and it does take active focus to get on and stay on that new path.
Speaker 1:That's right. I really like. I prefer that analogy that you just gave. I really like it. I often think of it in conjunction with like walking through a cornfield, that when you walk through a cornfield, you naturally want to follow the paths that have already been tread, because there's less corn in your way and it's easier, right. And anytime you go off the beaten path and go a new way, what do you start? Getting hit in the face with Corn and so. But in order to tread your new path, you need to keep going in that space and keep trying, keep changing. Yeah, sort of like that.
Speaker 2:Well, and, and in response to the change idea and the growth idea, it says that we lose our upward momentum. And it reminded me of when you were teaching our kids the um, the formula about momentum force. Can you remember that one it was? I think the kids were like that he, you caught them trying to throw snow at a car and you were like you can't do that, it's going to damage it. And they're like it's just snow. And you had a good argument for that. What was that?
Speaker 1:well, no, yeah, that's something slightly different, but it applies. Uh, you know, force is two components it's mass and acceleration. So you could have something small thrown at a very fast speed and it'll do a lot of damage, and that's the argument I was making to the kids. Okay is is that you know the the amount of speed something picks up can increase the amount of force, even if it's very small.
Speaker 2:Okay, which doesn't necessarily have to do with momentum, but I can still see it as a tie into recovery, because when we hit the ground running we can have more of an impact on our recovery. Recovery. Or if maybe we're not hitting the ground running but we have the strength of the group behind us, that can also increase our the impact of the program yeah, I love the.
Speaker 1:I love that they chose the word momentum. Our spiritual progress picks up speed and momentum, driven by the higher power, we are coming to understand better each day. Do you remember the phrase that if you're, if you're tired of starting over?
Speaker 2:Stop quitting.
Speaker 1:Stop quitting, yeah, and the amount of force and energy it takes to start again is significant, and that applies to every area of your life. And so starting over although that's part of the program right, because you learn Every time you start over, you see it clearer, you see a little bit more right. And so this is what we meant when we were talking in a prior episode about you know, if you're married to an addict, well, you have to expect the relapse, because the relapse is where the learning is. If they're properly oriented during the relapse, right. And so that you know the price they pay by stopping their momentum is part of what will push them to keep the momentum in the future. Right, and, like I said, the price they pay by stopping their momentum is part of what will push them to keep the momentum in the future Right.
Speaker 1:And, like I said before, there are many ways in which we compromise our momentum. And just because you relapse doesn't necessarily mean you're stopping. That's part of working. Your program Right Is is learning from your relapses, and it doesn't mean you're. You know, sometimes we blame ourselves, especially addicts. We tend to have this fallacy in our head that as soon as I use, everything gets thrown out yeah that's just.
Speaker 1:That's just not the case, you know. But we tend to and that is a lie that we tell ourselves to give ourselves the excuse to go deeper right when in reality we haven't lost anything wasn't it called the fuck it principle? From something that we read I don't remember. Do you remember that? No, I don't there was.
Speaker 2:There was book that we read, and it was talking about this that when something goes wrong or there's a barrier, that their natural tendency is to throw your hands up and say, well, fuck it, it's done, it's done, it's done, I can't fix it now, and so you just go off the deep end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and part of that. There's a variety of elements of why people feel that way, one of the which is they see the relapse as the problem, and I really would challenge anyone who looks at that to see that as an opportunity for growth, and that's how I look at it now. I still relapse. I relapse all the time, in different things. I haven't relapsed in alcohol for 10 years, but there are lots of things I still struggle with and I fundamentally look at them differently now and they are significantly less impactful. They don't trip me up as much.
Speaker 1:I'm able to pick up and keep going and I learn every time right, it's a journey. So just the momentum is just it's a really interesting way to describe the progress you get and we make it a lot harder for ourselves when we beat ourselves up, when we fail, because we blame it as a failure, when it really is just progress, just evidence of progress.
Speaker 2:Well, and I love the two examples that you gave with exercise and biking. Those are like great examples right.
Speaker 2:If I'm on a journey on a bicycle. I know there's going to be uphills. I know there's also going to be downhills. I know there's going to be flat areas. I know there's might. There might be traffic lights, Okay, and when I come to a traffic light and I have to stop, it's definitely harder to get going again, especially if I happen to be on a hill when I come to that traffic light and then I have to keep going.
Speaker 2:Right and yet the stop is just as necessary as all the going and I think that sometimes we lose.
Speaker 2:We lose that in recovery, recognizing that it is just as important for us to have these stops or these relapses so that we can reevaluate and recognize that we need a higher power and whatever it is that we need, that we get out of that relapse or that stop or whatever whatever. It's a reminder when for us, if we stop going to program for a while, ours is I start to nitpick again, start to become less enjoyable, you start to want to escape, maybe you start playing more video games again. We fall back into those kinds of old patterns until we take the time to back up and say we haven't gone to a meeting in a long time. And in fact when we first were going, we went diligently to meetings for three or four years and then there was probably a year or two where it got a little rocky. Do you remember this? And I might miss a few meetings and you would be able to call it and you'd say hey how long has it been?
Speaker 2:Yeah, how long has it been since you've been to a meeting? When was the last time? I think you're due for a meeting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we started to realize that. Yeah, and that's actually we should bring that up. That's a fascinating. If it's okay, can I talk about the red, yellow and green behaviors? Here, this is a. It's hard to do this without giving you an example, but you know, in addiction you start to learn to stop categorizing all your behaviors as addict behaviors and start to categorize them in different buckets and the three ways to view them are red, yellow and green behaviors.
Speaker 1:Often depicted by a target like a circular target where the red behaviors are in the center and the red behaviors are acting out. So if I'm a gambling addict, they would be going to a slot machine or going to a casino or playing online gambling or playing horse races or doing some sort of right.
Speaker 1:The drug addict would be taking a drug, or an alcoholic might be going to a bar. Those are the red behaviors, right, the behaviors I'm trying to avoid. The yellow behaviors are behaviors that lead me, that show evidence that I'm on the path to those behaviors, and so nitpicking board games.
Speaker 2:Those are the yellow rings around the red in the middle that they're the closest to your addiction.
Speaker 1:And they point to it's like to the center, which is red behaviors, right, and so yours are nitpicking and you have a half dozen other ones. I don't know if you want to share those minor I think you should stick with the gambling example right so so think about what might be.
Speaker 2:Oh, some money in my wallet, or a bonus, or just the desire to go back.
Speaker 1:This, the missing, the smell, a cue of the smell of the race course it could be something smaller too, though, because some it depends on what the addict associates with the using behavior right for some gambling addicts it would be like in canada, it would be like convenience stores, because they sell slot cards there.
Speaker 2:Right, so you have to, because that's where it primes yeah, every time you go shopping and you're at that cash register, there's all the lottery tickets right there for me, a prescription addict, it's my doctor's office, right every time you go see the doctor it's like should I ask for this every?
Speaker 1:time an alcoholic. It's a friend's house or a movie or a bar or someplace that they've gotten alcohol before those two, or it could be something. And that's the point as you start to, as you build a more robust description of the yellow behaviors, you're able to deal with your addiction better, because then you realize, oh, it's not just me going to that place, it's actually the fight with my wife. It's I had a bad day at work and I didn't self-care. I sat with it and went to bed and I went to bed or I didn't sleep last night because I was really. I was up all night worrying about something. And tomorrow I'm feeling really upset. Now I'm really good, clear picture. I understand now a lot better what my yellow and red behaviors are. Now.
Speaker 1:Green behaviors again are things you need to build out, which are things that push you. They're the outer ring of the target. They push you away from the addict, from the yellow behaviors. They decrease the likelihood. Oftentimes people try to look at coping skills as a way to avoid the destructive addict behaviors, and that's not the key. The key is to solve the yellow behaviors right. So how do you deal with the nitpicking? Well, you get centered in a program.
Speaker 1:You focus on yourself. You do service, you reach out right With me. I have to take care of my health. I have to take care of like, there are a variety of things. Right, I have to engage in a creative outlet. Because that, because if I don't, then that, then I want to waste time on video games and things which push me into my yellow behaviors, right?
Speaker 1:so that's kind of like that's all part of um, you know, getting to know. Why are we talking about that? I wanted to show sorry, that was the really long example you brought something up that I really, I really like that and no, no, I like that it it's about.
Speaker 2:I think it's important and I want to summarize it.
Speaker 1:So you've got.
Speaker 2:The red behaviors in the middle are the behaviors that we want to avoid, whatever our addictions are or whatever our bad habits are. The yellow are those triggers that we can identify that are directly related to the bad behaviors right and that's the ring around it. And then, on the green, you're not actually. It's not actually things that are trying to keep you away from the middle so much as things that are bringing you in different directions. And I love that you mentioned creative endeavors, because I feel like that could solve a lot of them, because a lot of times when we cut something out of our life, we leave a void and if we can fill it with something, then that's definitely going to help those green behaviors to be.
Speaker 2:These are the things we want to be doing. They will naturally take us away from the red, because we're trying to resolve the yellow, and maybe the yellow is we can identify that this is a trigger. When my wife criticizes me, it drives me nuts, right. But maybe under the green, what we find is I don't like to be criticized, because it was so prevalent in my childhood home and it takes me back and there's a trauma response and then I feel self-worth issues and that's right, etc. Etc.
Speaker 1:Right, and so part of the green behavior might also be resolving that's right the reason why those yellow things are triggers that's right, and as you do, because then once you identify them, you can resolve them, something you just said. I want to just. You know the reason why I brought up creativity. Brene Brown once said that she said it to Oprah on an interview. Actually once. Creativity on um. I'm not going to say it right, but I'll just give it to you as best I can. Creativity undeployed metastasizes in the body. In the body it becomes chaos Because you don't know what to do yourself. We are creative beings. We need an outlet of creativity. Everyone expresses that differently, and when you don't do that, it metastasizes inside and causes you to behave in ways that are shameful.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's good to know. So, listeners, if you don't have a hobby or anything that allows you to get your creativity out, find something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's excellent. Okay, anything else, because I have a couple other thoughts.
Speaker 1:No, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Okay it talks about. Our only option is to actively participate in our program of spiritual growth, so I thought it might be worthwhile to talk a little bit about active participation and active participation.
Speaker 1:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:We have talked about this in meetings just within the last six months, where we talked about how some people just come to meetings and, when it comes to recovery, that's like being at a lake and just tipping your toes in the water right, and it can be refreshing. It can be refreshing to go up to your ankles and just wait in the water and it can be the break that you need or the refreshing that you need to go back to your life of chaos.
Speaker 2:But you're, until you start swimming, you're not getting the full effect of the program of the lake and and that if you really want to participate in a recovery program, you need to find a sponsor you need to work the steps and when you've started with the sponsor and started working the steps, look for opportunities for service in your group and that could be showing up early and setting up chairs, making coffee.
Speaker 2:It could be staying late to clean up afterwards or it could be. There's always service roles there's the treasurer, the secretary, the group rep, sometimes there's an assistant group rep. It does take people to run these groups and those people are volunteers and they're usually volunteers for a short period of time a year, two years, three years, whatever it is in your area that they sign up for. But almost every group is deficient in one of those service capacities. They need somebody to step up and help in those roles.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. So and this is not wrong, there's no right answer to this. So active participation in a program to you equals sponsorship, step work and service.
Speaker 2:Fundamentally, those would be highly active, maybe minimally active would maybe be sharing as well, not just showing up to meetings but, do you sit at the meetings and do you share as well? Do you listen to people and get stuff out of it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think you're wrong. I think that those are really good descriptions of ways in which to measure if you're actively working your program. I do find that there's a variety of addicts' presentations and some show up and share but don't do any work they use the program as a talk therapy session but never do any of the work outside the meetings. They do a little bit right. That's a judgment. They do make progress, but they seem locked in a state.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and those are the ones that are sharing on the same issues. Every time that there's that they share.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. If you keep sharing the same issues, that's a pretty good sign that you're not progressing Right and that's fine. It's just a higher powers message to you saying, hey, you need to keep working. I have a process because I would. I like simplicity. I don't like making it complex, not to say yours was complex, but I like to think okay, what? Because I have a very distracted mind and I like to think is there something I can do that keeps me honest?
Speaker 1:The one thing I would say is a sure sign you're not working an active program is are you stalled on a step of the 12-step program, step of the 12 step program? And that's what I would say. Is that so? I? Often I use the program when I go to meetings and I hear the 12 steps every meeting without fail. As the 12 steps are read, I ask myself where have I stopped? And usually somewhere around there. I've missed a step, and sometimes it's, you know, one of the first ones. I've slipped in my faith, in my heart power, in my surrender. Other times it's oh, I'm making actions and I'm not making amends. Right.
Speaker 1:Or I'm not doing my daily amends right. The one that I have most frequently faltered on is step 12, getting back.
Speaker 1:Which is why we're doing the podcast, that's right and so, like you know, I would encourage that chances are. If your pro, if your progress is stalled, then you've hit a roadblock along somewhere. The steps they do build on one another. So you start at one as you read it and ask yourself where am I at Any issues here? No, move on, and you go into, you're like oh, did I stop here? Did I not do a full moral inventory? Cause I didn't have a sponsor and never completed it. Have I not made the amends that I know I'm supposed to make? That's a lot. That's where a lot of people stop right.
Speaker 1:So that would kind of be the thing that I would say in terms of you know, I'm glad you brought that active program up and that's you know what I would do, or I would recommend people do to assess and it's not a one-time thing, you're not working steps one to 12 and then done.
Speaker 2:I to 12 and then done. I mean, if it's a lifelong program, we do them over and over again and maybe each time we don't start back at one. Maybe we do. Maybe we go one to five and then we have to go back to two. You know like there's we kind of bounce around, but being able to say, okay, it's been a while, I need to go through one, through 12, let's do this whole thing again every once in a while is important, after you've already done it once or twice as well that's interesting that you bring it up.
Speaker 1:You know, and that's true, a lot of people get through the 12. Like I'm good. I've noticed, like the first time I went to the steps, I got to step 11 and never did 12, not once did I do 12, but got some sobriety. Years later I was struggling and went back to the program and when I, as I reviewed the steps, I realized, oh, I'm not giving it to God, I've reverted back to step three, I'm not letting go of it, I've not made the decision to turn it over to him. I do believe I think he can help me, but I'm not turning it over to him. So, like there's, and then other times it's been back to six and I've said, okay, I've got to make, I've got to do a moral inventory and amends.
Speaker 1:I got to talk to my wife, I've got to share some things that I didn't share with her. Those are all mini steps that I've taken over the years because I'm stuck in different places.
Speaker 2:Right, and it's a good segue into the second part that you started the podcast here with which is that it's a spiritual program.
Speaker 2:It's a very spiritual program. It brings us back to our higher power. Every step of the way there's an opportunity to connect with our higher power. Every step of the way there's an opportunity to connect with our higher power. Every step of the way there's an opportunity to hand over our troubles to a higher power, or to ask for strength from a higher power, or to just be be driven by the higher power to to do better. Right, it's, it's very much a spiritual program what did that look like for you?
Speaker 1:because you didn't struggle with it, I did right. What did you? I't struggle with it, I did Right. What did you? I did struggle with it.
Speaker 2:Tell me which way did you struggle with it? I struggled with it in a very different way. So when I came into the program, I had a pretty firm spiritual background, really great relationship with my higher power, and so I heard the steps and was like, oh great, I got one, two and three done. I'm on number number four. And when I met with my sponsor for the first six months I think, probably for the first three months, three or four months we would get together and I would vent and I would share and I thought that I was working the steps and I'd be like this is where I'm at and this is what we're doing and whatever.
Speaker 2:And she'd be, you know, she humored me for a few months before I said okay, so how do you want to do the moral inventory? She's like you're not on a moral inventory. And she brought me back to step one and and it was interesting because we basically would start by having discussions about oh, this triggered me this week and whatever. And then she'd ask why it triggered me and we'd go back into some childhood issues and whatever. And then she would go back into you know, why is it triggering and why can't I let it go, and and all these things, and she really emphasized to me that I was trying to control a lot of things, that I was holding on to a lot of things. She showed me, um, that I trust my higher power in some ways, really, really well right and in some ways I am not giving up any control
Speaker 2:and then and then. One of those ways was that I trust that my higher power will guide me, but I don't trust that my higher, that your higher power will guide you, right, right. And so she was able to take me back and say no, no, no. And it was interesting because she didn't just come out and say these things, she just kept coming back and being like okay, but why do you have the need to control that you're not handing it over to your higher?
Speaker 2:power because you're controlling it and, and it was true, I had to go back and I I spent probably a year and a half on steps one, two and three which is funny because you're incredibly spiritual. Yeah yeah, and yet there was just this natural part of me that just really didn't trust my higher power I have a follow-up question.
Speaker 1:I'll just maybe invite you to drill down a little bit more, because I am interested. Step one is I can't. Now, it has some, you know, it has some more words to it, but that's fundamentally what it means I can't. Step two is he can or she it. Whatever your high power is. Step three is let him her or it.
Speaker 2:Yes, right, I had no doubt in step two.
Speaker 1:Did you? That's my question. Oh, I knew God could do it. You knew he could.
Speaker 2:But I believed I could do it and I wasn't willing to let it go and let him do it for me why that's interesting. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, why? Okay, so.
Speaker 1:Because if God could, what is it? Did you not trust that he would do it right?
Speaker 2:No, that's not it.
Speaker 1:What was it?
Speaker 2:It was by me saying I can't. It was related to my self-worth, my perfectionism. I could not acknowledge that something was outside of my ability to deal with in my life because it took a direct attack on my sense of person, sense of worth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, letting go meant I'm worthless. Yeah, even if it was giving it up to god yeah I'm supposed to be able to. I'm supposed to be able to do it. I'm supposed to have control. If I don't have control, I'm worthless, worthless.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did a lot of shooting. I should on myself. That's what you say, don't should on yourself, and I would should on myself all the time. I would say I should be able to help my husband with this. I should be able to hold my marriage together. I should be able to have a perfectly clean house and all of my meals for all of my kids and husband and still you know, perform my duties in the bedroom and still work a 40 hour week. I should be able to do everything, yeah, even with a husband that can't hold his crap together.
Speaker 1:I love this, you know, because my struggle was not step three. It did become later, just because and not that I didn't I needed to be able to do it, but I just stopped caring to let him, I stopped relying on him right. Initially though it was, I didn't believe in a God, mm-hmm. So like I had submitted my powerlessness not necessarily to a higher power, but my powerlessness. And step two that was my struggle is that I didn't believe there existed something that could so you could acknowledge that you couldn't yeah but you didn't feel like there was anything there for step two that could do it for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and then it quickly became okay. Well then, I'm gonna rely on the group and just trust the group. The group makes promises you, yeah, yeah, and then it quickly became okay. Well then, I'm gonna rely on the group and just trust the group the group makes promises, keep coming back.
Speaker 1:It works if you work it and lo and behold, I got some sobriety and along the path I realized, as I walked that journey, it is a spiritual program. I found out. Oh, when I threw god out I actually threw some because it was attached to my religious upbringing- I actually threw out a lot of things I cared about, that I actually believed and I was able to reconnect with my higher power, and my higher power doesn't look like everyone else's higher power right, I'm in a religious community now.
Speaker 2:I don't think anyone's looks the same I don't think they do.
Speaker 1:But you know, I that's one of the things like. That's one of the things that I remind myself and tell myself is that that's okay. My higher power doesn't need to have a copyright, it doesn't need to look like yours or do be anything like theirs my power powers for me and anyway, we should probably at some point do step step episodes. It would be interesting to take a step and just discuss our experience with that step one by one at some point. Throw them in. Yeah, it would be fascinating.
Speaker 2:Maybe we do that as like a sunday episode yeah, that would be kind of cool. Yeah, wednesdays is slogans you said that, and yet we posted a slogan today's friday. We could make friday a slogan day, because we posted the first. You know what's crazy?
Speaker 1:we can do whatever we want we can do whatever we want.
Speaker 2:There's no rules.
Speaker 1:We can do whatever we want. I know for sure I want to do a slogan episode. I'm earmarking that on wednesday just because I think that's nice.
Speaker 2:For some reason it feels. For some reason it feels right.
Speaker 1:Slogan day reason it feels right. I like the idea of Friday being mailbag day, where we formally interact with the audience and with people who are commenting.
Speaker 2:Okay, so if you have a comment on this or any other podcasts that we've done, try to get it done by Thursday. So you can be on that Friday, or listen for the following week.
Speaker 1:And if not, what we'll do is we'll go find a forum somewhere that's talking about recovery-based things and we'll answer their question, and then we'll post the episode and say, hey, we answered your question here on Fridays and if you, don't want to put a comment on our podcast.
Speaker 2:we now have a button there that says send a text and you can literally text us if you have questions that you want us to address and we can totally respond to that Friday mailbag episode, and then Sundays. It'd be nice maybe to do a step work a step, a step thing that might be a nice process.
Speaker 1:We're going to do all of our steps over again and again, and again.
Speaker 2:I love it, but that's part of the program yeah, every time we go through it Anyway, okay, well, I got nothing else.
Speaker 1:You got anything else? No, I think that was a good reading. I initially was reading it and I was like I don't know if I have very much and I jotted two things down. But you never know where these readings are going to take us. So, just for today, and commit yourself this is important. Commit yourself to acknowledging this truth that the only constant in my spiritual condition is change. Embrace it, stop resisting it. I cannot rely on yesterday's program. Today I seek new spiritual growth through prayer and action that's right.
Speaker 2:We don't brush our teeth yesterday and say it's good for today. We work with the program every day. Thanks for coming, guys see you next time.
