I am grateful to have come out of the darkness of addiction and to have found the road of recovery. It feels so good to be walking down the road, knowing I am at last making progress, stepping lively and lifting the burdens of shame and guilt.  The road is straight, turning neither right nor left,  and we walk taking one step at a time, sometimes one minute at a time but eventually one day at a time. But lest we get too confident, we look to the side of the road to see the ditch, following us along, where surely we could end up at any moment. It takes constant care to stay with the program of recovery and remain firmly on the road and not in the ditch.