Sunday, July 24, 2022

July 24, 2022 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Living the “today” approach

We must understand from the very beginning that in the program, we learn to live one day at a time. We learn, for example, not to take that first fix, pill, or drink “today.” This is easier for us to do than to think of abstaining for years or a lifetime.

But many of us miss the fact that the “today” approach can be applied to all areas of our life, not just abstinence. It helps if we can deal with issues such as love, sex, death, honesty, and resentments one day at a time. Our Higher Power expects no more of us than to do what we can do today.

Am I living “today” today?

Higher Power, help me live the “today” approach in all areas of my life.

Today I will apply the “today” approach to…

Hazelden Foundation

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