"Weaving the Fabric of Our Lives" - Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, p. 175
"The image of my Higher power lovingly guiding the weaving of my recovery tapestry - spiritual, emotional, and physical - adds to my peace and serenity. As long as I use the tools . . . my recovery tapestry will not unravel, and I will continue to move forward in my recovery." - Voices of Recovery, p. 8
I remember one of my first outreach calls I made on my current sponsor's instructions. I kept asking N. about whether I would ever eat bread again, among other things. She said "I don't know, but not today." Any time I asked a panicked question about the future, that was her response. Eventually I took up the same philosophy. It tracks well with what you hear in meetings and from the readings - recovery happens one day at a time. All it takes is one day of compulsive overeating and the person who had twenty years of abstinence now has zero days. It is so easy to slip.
But I love the image of the tapestry. I read this passage and had the mental image that every day I am abstinent I am adding one more thread to my tapestry. So I will build my life, my recovery one day and one thread at a time.
