The Prize Fight

 Addiction is like a boxing match.  Every time you get into the addiction it is like being punched.  You fall down and then get up.  When you get up you have new tactics so that you don’t fall down again.  New tactics don’t work.  You get punched again, maybe differently, but still punched and you fall down.  Your adversary in the ring is powerful and sneaky.  But you don’t give up.  New tactic.  punch and fall down.  After so many rounds, you give up.  You surrender rather than be beaten to death.  The referee comes and takes you to a place of safety.  Follow the referee.  Stay out of the ring.  God is the referee and the safe place is the group of former fighters, all who have surrendered and learned a new way of living that keeps them out of the ring.  Recovery is retirement from the fight, one day at a time.