Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings. — William Shakespeare
When we read the words restore us to sanity in Step Two, we can believe absolutely that somewhere within us, we are sane. Restoration means returning to us what we already possess—wholeness. Through this Step we find the beginnings of reconciliation; we are reconciled with ourselves and our Higher Power, and we have the hope of being reconciled with other people.
Working this Step takes patience because it is a process, sometimes a long one. “Coming to believe” doesn’t mean embracing a body of intellectual beliefs; it means beginning to find faith, which is entirely different from intellectual belief. Before we can have faith, we must have hope. This Step provides that.
Like a child, I take one Step at a time. I believe that today my life is being restored to me.
Hazelden Foundation
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