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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