Friday, Dec. 31, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Don’t brood on what’s past, but never forget it either. — Thomas H. Raddall
When we make big changes in our lives for the better, as we have all done, we naturally grieve the time we lost by not learning our lessons sooner. There’s no way to avoid that grief, but there’s no point in dwelling on it. Some of us get hooked by feelings of regret. We brood over the ways we let others down, and we wish we could relive certain events and do better with them this time. It is important for us all to release the past — let it go.
Our life is now. If we spend our conscious moments living in the past and regretting our mistakes, we never get on with living a good life in the present. A truly humble man accepts the forgiveness of others and the forgiveness of his Higher Power. He accepts the universal truth that we are all broken in some ways, and our self-acceptance isn’t based on what we did or didn’t do in the past, but on how we live today.
Today, I look back at where I have come from and feel grateful for a new life.
Hazelden Foundation
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