Dec. 25, 2014 - Today's Gift from Hazelden

The Serenity Prayer

Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014

Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go.
 -- Matthew Fox

A holiday presents us with an opportunity to practice the letting go of this program. This is a special day to set aside our work and our routines, to put our problems and burdens on the shelf. Let us join with others who are also letting go on this day and celebrate. Maybe we can learn from them how they do it.

We may have been too compulsive on past holidays to celebrate. Or perhaps our holidays are clouded with painful memories. We might miss loved ones or we may recall disappointments for the chaos of earlier holidays. There is no need for perfection in our celebration. We can have some tension, or pain, and yet set it aside as we join with others for a special day.

Today, I will set my ego aside and let go of the usual things in my life in order to reach out to others and participate in celebration.

From the book:

Touchstones by Anonymous

Touchstones ©1986, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation