Sunday, December 12, 2021

Dec. 12, 2021 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

I’ll just take it one day at a time, and when I’m ready, I’ll be ready. It’ll reveal itself, I guess. — America Ferrera

We are to take with us only the joys and problems of the present day. We don’t carry with us the mistakes of days gone by. We have no room for them. We are to work at loving ourselves and others today. Just today.

It’s crazy for us to think we can handle more than one day at a time. During our illness, we lived everywhere but in the here and now. We looked to the future or punished ourselves with our past. The AA slogan “One day at a time” teaches us to go easy. It teaches us to focus on what really means anything to us: the here and now.

Prayer fothe Day

Higher Power, help me turn the slogans of my programs into a way of life. Help me to live life moment by moment, one day at a time.

Action for the Day

Today I’ll practice living in the present. When I find myself living in the past or in the future, I’ll bring myself back to today.

Hazelden Foundation

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