Monday, September 2, 2024

Sept. 2, 2024 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 


Monday, Sept. 2, 2024

Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product  of civilization.

-- Arnold Toynbee

Some of us have a lot of time to devote to things other than work. If we allow our addiction to fill up this time -- as it so easily can -- then we become tired and wretched. There is nothing more time-consuming or more exhausting than an obsession.

As we recover we find that we have more time at our disposal for leisure and play. We can take time to visit friends and loved ones, to go outdoors, to develop hobbies, to play sports and to look at and listen to all the fine and exciting things that surround us.

Time off is necessary, and it becomes invigorating if we bring to it new energy and purpose. We are changing, and we feel grateful to our Higher Power for a new sense of serenity and purpose. We can now play openly and joyfully in harmony with the wonders of living.

My time away from obsession is time to live and love as a free person.

Hazelden Foundation

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