Responsibility is a big word. After having been in recovery for a while, that word has become even bigger!
The way of responsibility and the pursuit of it creates our new life in recovery. The life beyond our wildest dreams if you will. Tied closely with honesty, responsibility is the true connection with our Higher power. It is a right living, ongoing, mindful contact with God for love of self and love of others. Essentially over time allowing us to return to what we really are… Love.
The big book talks a lot about putting too much responsibility on others for things we should be doing for ourselves. Easy to do in addiction, for we are too inebriated to accomplish the task of living. Yet now that we are sober, It is so important for us to allow others, whether in the program or not, to find their bottom. For as we all know, until that happens, there is no realization of a serious life problem, thus nothing needs changing.
The real gut level understanding of this principle of a God directed life, is revealed to all of us over time by staying responsible in the program. For it is through time in recovery that we will understand and learn by God’s Grace, our “bottom’s” have indeed given us the greatest gift we have ever received. Namely, the way of true Divine life purpose here on earth by following the twelve steps and through the will of God, gaining that realization of the reality of everlasting life with our Lord in heaven.