But when we insist on not being limited, we get sick. We push past our limits at the expense of our physical, emotional and spiritual health. There is a fundamental spiritual struggle at work here. Our dislike for limits is, at heart, the struggle of a creature who wants to be the Creator. At the heart of recovery for many of us is the struggle to acknowledge our creatureliness.
Creatures have limits.
Creatures are finite. Creatures get tired. Creatures cannot take care of everything. Accepting the limitations which are appropriate to a creature is for many of us an important step toward accepting God as our Creator. The disciplines of recovery involve learning practical ways to identify and respond to our limits.