Living Beyond Chronic Pain – Healing a Break | Day 15
Heard in a meeting: “The good life is not all rainbows and skittles.” Amen to that. Today I am clean and fully awake. I get the privilege of feeling life…all of life. The good life. This is a spiritual program that we work, this life we live. As such, my experience has been that my Higher Power is generous in Its assignments, ever pushing my growing edges and expanding the possibilities for me to experience. My latest assignment here has been to feel the exquisite, if somewhat zany and twisted, multidimensional feeling of my arm in a cast: the deep aches where the bones are busy knitting themselves together again, the bruising from bone breaks to skin as felt from the pressure of the cast, and the beckoning itch along the skin…the one that I cannot possibly reach to scratch it. The itch that cannot be scratched – isn’t that what we learn how to do when we put down our addictive behaviors? Here, learning to just allow all of these sensations to be what they are, is quite the lesson from my HP to turn it over. I can just hear my HP saying, “Here you go Elizabeth, take this. Now let’s see if you’ve really learned that Step 3 yet?” Talk about stretching, unfolding, expanding into an even richer dimension of surrender. Yes, the good life is not all rainbows and skittles. You know what? I wouldn’t have it any other way. What a blessing to be able to say so. #WeDoRecover #SweetSurrender #kippinitreal