Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Oct. 8, 2024 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 


Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024

Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

-- Mark Twain

It's not that we want God to change everything about us or remake us to perfection. (OK, maybe we do.) It's not that we wish we were other than who we are; some days we even like who we are. It's more that we want to have faith in ourselves, a deep-down, constant faith that steadies us. We want to have roots deep in the earth, not fragile roots of glass.

Strong and deep roots are made of self-esteem, hope, love, willingness, humility and faith. Our longing to be grounded in life may take the form of wishing we were not addicted, but that's a cover-up for the deeper things we truly want.

Recovery reorganizes our personalities, indeed our very souls, around new, spiritual principles. We remain addicts and always will be, yet that doesn't prevent us from possessing faith in ourselves and the courage to keep growing.

I am a vessel containing life. I am a vessel that has been shattered and mended. I will endure.

Hazelden Foundation

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