Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
We can handle everything as it is, just for today.
We want to change so many aspects of our lives. We want drinkers to get sober, jobs to be more fulfilling, defects to disappear. And we want it all to happen today! Impatience complicates the flow of our lives. “We get what we need when we need it,” say the wiser ones among us. Little by little we are coming to believe that there is a timetable for how our lives unfold; it simply is God’s timetable, not ours.
What helps us accept this is believing that we can handle everything as it is, just for today. Surely one more day of a job we don’t like can be tolerated. Living with an active addict can be handled too if we keep our focus on today only. Some new, positive behavior such as regularly saying more than just a cursory hello to other people can be tried just for today. The results will astound us. The possibilities will excite us.
Living just for today will give us a fresh outlook on every day as it unfolds. Few things will overwhelm us when we keep our focus on today.
I look forward to every experience today, knowing that God is giving me what I need.
Hazelden Foundation
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