Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024
Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it is one damn thing over and over.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
If there's one thing you can say for addicted people, it's that we're hardheaded. It takes us a long time to be convinced that something is bad for us, particularly if it feels good momentarily. It's also hard to convince us that something is good for us, even when we desperately want to stop feeling bad. As a result, we've spent much of our life doing things over and over -- spinning our wheels.
Luckily, there's a cure for this. It's called turning it over. We quit trying to figure out what is good or bad for us, or even what is in our best interest. We know that, on our own, there’s no sure way we can tell. Instead, we ask a higher authority to handle it for us. That authority is God.
Instead of continually trying to control my life, I'll continually turn it over to the care of God.
Hazelden Foundation
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