Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash. — Sigmund Freud
The father of psychoanalysis sheds more light on himself, in the above comment, than he does on his fellow human beings. God doesn’t make trash, but coming from someone who spent his life probing the human psyche to find out why people do bad things, Freud’s comment may be understandable. He contributed much to understanding the workings of the human psyche, but little to the understanding of our worthiness.
Our program’s approach to recovery from illness stresses the good. We take a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, but we don’t dwell on our mistakes. We ask forgiveness, make amends, and put our mistakes behind us. Then we look for and find the expression of God in each other.
I put my mistakes behind me and ask God to bring out the good.
Hazelden Foundation
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