Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
We can accept unconditional love.
Believing that we can be loved regardless of our defects is not easy. Most of us didn’t experience that kind of love as children. What’s more, the God we grew up with may have been shaming. Now that we are adults, the criticism we’ve received from employers, friends, spouses, and other people reinforces our doubt. When our new program friends tell us that our Higher Power loves us unconditionally, we think they are being unrealistic. We can’t even love ourselves!
Let’s give ourselves time to change what we believe and who we believe. Our program will help us. If relied on, the slogans and the Steps will give us a new perspective on every experience. Coming to believe that a Higher Power can wholly love us is a gift of recovery. Then we can begin loving ourselves a little too. Next we’ll even begin to love others.
I will believe in unconditional love if I let this program work in my life today.
Hazelden Foundation
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