Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Strengthening assets minimizes defects
Step Six asks us to become entirely ready to let God have our defects. What does that mean? None of us wants troublesome defects. And yet some of them served as survival skills in the past; thus today we may fear parting with them. Listening to sponsors and other program winners helps us see that every defect, in time, turns on us. While it might have helped us cope at one time, it now is killing our spirit, our hope, our relationships. It’s not easy to give up a defect to God. The void this leaves needs filling.
Fortunately, sponsors and other people suggest how to fill the void. And that’s where our assets come in. No matter how low our self-worth, regardless of how inadequate we feel, we all have special positive qualities too. We can take any one of them and demonstrate it in our lives, every day, or even many times a day. We’ll feel empowered, hopeful, and far less encumbered by the traits that have caused us so much pain.
I will focus on my assets today, and I’ll let others see them at work too.
Hazelden Foundation
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