Friday, Oct. 23, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — M. Simone Weil
It is often with some difficulty that we come to understand our need for personal boundaries. We also have to struggle to maintain them once they’re defined. Our boundaries are blurred when our desire to be loved and needed by others seduces us into becoming overly involved in their lives. Or when we find ourselves overly committed with tasks and social engagements—even ones we enjoy. We must remember we need time alone, time for the stillness within to nurture us.
Until we detach from the person or the situation that is drawing us in, we can have no objectivity. We also lose our sense of God’s role in our life when our boundaries are blurred. God gives us our direction, our definition, our vision, and our understanding whenever we ask.
I will take time with my Higher Power today to remember my boundaries.
Hazelden Foundation
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