Saturday, July 22, 2023

July 22, 2023 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Reflection for the Day

Self-pity is one of the most miserable and consuming defects I know. Because of its interminable demands for attention and sympathy, my self-pity cuts off my communication with others, especially communication with my Higher Power. When I look at it that way, I realize that self-pity limits my spiritual progress. It’s also a very real form of martyrdom, which is a luxury I simply can’t afford. The remedy, I’ve been taught, is to have a hard look at myself and a still harder one at the program’s Twelve Steps to recovery.

Do I ask my Higher Power to relieve me of the bondage of self?

Today I Pray

May I know from observation that self-pitiers get almost no pity from anyone else. Nobody — not even my Higher Power — can fill their outsize demands for sympathy. May I recognize my own unsavory feeling of self-pity when it creeps in to rob me of my serenity. May my Higher Power keep me wary of its sneakiness.

Today I Will Remember

My captor is my self.

Hazelden Foundation

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