Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage never operates in a vacuum; we are always courageous about something. And we need to believe that there will be some consequence to our acts of bravery. We are looking at the long term for some kind of salvation for ourselves and for others.
Love, too, needs a sense of future, time to develop and flower. Only passion lives for the moment, and passion, like the flame-red rose, often doesn’t last out the year.
So love and courage are similar and often work together for our own good and the good of others. In our program we prize love and courage as we gain more wisdom and serenity. We come to believe in the long term and in things that endure. We know we can’t change in a day, but with love and courage, and the hope on which they depend, we can do wonders.
I believe in my courage to change day by day.
Hazelden Foundation
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