Tuesday, June 15, 2021

June 15, 2021 - Redings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Thinking clearly, sanely, is one of the rewards from working these Twelve Steps.

Reflecting on how we behaved during our most trying times with the alcoholic in our lives helps us see how much we have grown. We frequently acted vengefully and even more often resentfully. And we felt justified. After all, we had told the alcoholic to stop!

How much we have learned since then. We have come to accept alcoholism as a disease, and we realize that we are affected by the other person’s illness too. Using these Twelve Steps has made it possible for us to behave more lovingly, certainly more sanely, than before. We can check out our thinking and our plans for action with others before doing anything, often saving ourselves from unnecessary conflict.

We can be fairly certain that the excessive turmoil of earlier periods is over. Working our own program, letting the others in our lives work theirs, assures us of that. What a wonderful gift clear thinking is.

I will share my gratitude for my sanity with someone else today. Perhaps my sharing will inspire that person to seek a better life too.

Hazelden Foundation

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