Wednesday, April 20, 2022

April 20, 2022 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Reflection for the Day

Any number of addicted people are bedeviled by the dire conviction that if they ever go near the program — whether by attending meetings or talking one-to-one with a member — they’ll be pressured to conform to some particular brand of faith or religion. They don’t realize that faith is never an imperative for membership in the program; that freedom from addiction can be achieved with an easily acceptable minimum of it; and that our concepts of a Higher Power — as we understand it — afford everyone a nearly unlimited choice of spiritual belief and action.

Am I receiving strength by sharing with newcomers?

Today I Pray

May I never frighten newcomers or keep away those who are considering coming to the program by imposing on them my particular, personal ideas about a Higher Power. May each discover his or her own spiritual identity. May all find within themselves a link with some great universal Being or Spirit whose power is greater than theirs individually. May I grow, both in tolerance and in spirituality, every day.

Today I Will Remember

I will reach, not preach.

Hazelden Foundation

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