Friday, Aug. 19, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
It is as blessed to receive as it is to give and a lot harder. — Ruth Humlecker
We think we are unworthy. Compliments on our appearance, praise for our work, strokes for our efforts to help others often go unappreciated by us. Why can’t we hear them? Why don’t we take them in? No doubt it’s because of our shame for not being perfect. None of us are perfect, but all of us think that perfection is possible and we have failed the test. How futile the thought. How harmful the result.
We are adept at many things; we are perfect at none. That’s a fact of human life. But we are good enough, providing we do our best and rely on God for direction. Coming to believe this is perhaps our most important lesson in life.
If someone blesses me with a compliment today, I will quietly listen and believe it is true.
Hazelden Foundation
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