Monday, June 22, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Playing God
He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. — George Eliot
Ego and conceit are familiar words to all of us. Self-centered and ego-inflated obsessions created the idea within our confused minds that we could control everyone and everything. We in recovery refer to that as “trying to play God.”
The world’s great men and women credit their successes to the realization that they could not rule all of humankind. Those who never learned went down in disaster, as history proves.
The lives of the great remind us that we can make our lives inspiring and leave footprints in the sands of time. We only need to follow their example of choosing to be trusted servants rather than arrogant tyrants.
Our program teaches us that spiritual growth comes mainly from working in a simple manner with others as a team, all with a single purpose.
One of the elementary reasons why I am told to work at my conscious contact with my Higher Power is so that I can stop the mistake of trying to play God.
Hazelden Foundation
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