Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Friendship
The only reward for virtue, the only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is not a one-word motto to be hung on a wall. Friends are not statues to decorate a mantle. Friendships are as real to us as love and gratitude, and friends are as much a part of all our lives as the air we breathe.
Without friends, we could not enjoy the full benefits of recovery. All the truths we follow daily we receive from friends through hearing or reading their messages but mostly by watching them in action. Our primary goal is to add to our wisdom by giving. Without friendships, our caring and sharing would be empty gestures.
None of us needs ever to be alone again because each of us in our own way works for the good of others. We are bound together by a common problem and work together on the solution.
If I permit myself to become incapable of friendship, I will find that I will be unable to reveal myself to others and to my inner self.
Hazelden Foundation
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