Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Sobriety is not the antidote to all problems
Many of us assumed problems would no longer plague us once the addict got clean and sober. We’re discovering that’s not the case. But with a slight change in perspective, we can perceive problems as opportunities.
Fear immobilized us in the old days. Because we weren’t used to looking to a Higher Power for guidance, and because we never expected good to come from most situations, we gave up trying to make our lives better. We were resigned to tolerating life as merely a string of painful problems that we had to shoulder alone.
Very little about our lives has been the same since coming into the program. Some of us still have a drinking loved one in our lives. We may drive the same broken car or work for people who still don’t appreciate us. But our lives feel different. We have hope where we used to have doubt. We feel love where we used to feel fear. We feel God’s presence where we used to feel abandonment.
I am in good hands. No matter what is going on around me, I can feel safe and loved.
Hazelden Foundation
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