Good Friday

*Editor's Note: ARS is not a religious organization. However, as the Department of Health encourages, we too, encourage people to express their spirituality as it relates to their recovery journey. This writing, completed by a member of one of our recovery meeting communities, is shared with their permission and without comment. It expresses the author's personal views - not necessarily the views of the organization. 

Good Friday, for those of us in recovery (and even those who are not), is a chance to purposefully reflect on the weight of our sin. 

The cost of our selfishness. 

It's supposed to be a hard day. It's supposed to be a quiet day. It's supposed to be a day in which you can't help but be humbled. 

It's also a moment where the world takes a chapter from the Big Book - focusing on Steps 4, 5, and 8. While admitting someone else did Step 9 because I couldn't bear the cost. 

There are many paths to and for recovery. Everyone recovers from a broken bone differently. 

But mine is unquestionably Jesus' work on the cross. Good Friday is about thinking - deliberately and consistently - about His rescuing me from the pit. The pit I dug and deserved to be left to die in. 

Today I am grateful Christ dropped the Cross into that pit and pulled me out.

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