Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Reflection for the Day
In a letter to a friend, AA cofounder Bill W. wrote, “I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? In my view, we of this world are pupils in a great school of life. It is intended that we try to grow, and that we try to help our fellow travelers to grow in the kind of love that makes no demands. When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly, and help others to learn. When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift, and thank God for it.”
Can I accept both pain and happiness willingly?
Today I Pray
Higher Power, please help me remember that everything that happens to me has its worth, including the misery of addiction. May I believe that even my dependence was part of my Higher Power’s Grand Scheme.
Today I Will Remember
All that I am is all that has happened to me.
Hazelden Foundation
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