Friday, Nov. 18, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. — Abraham Heschel
There are many ways to pray, and each of us has a style that uniquely expresses our spirituality. Once we open ourselves to our Higher Power, we can get comfortable with our own way of praying. It may mean leaving past ways behind. Maybe we’ve been used to prayer that relied only on words. Perhaps we used to pray for what we wanted, making sure we told God precisely what was best for us and everybody else. Or maybe we didn’t pray at all because we didn’t know how to or were afraid.
We need not worry about how to pray; our Higher Power shows us how. We must, however, be willing to move from the everyday world to a place where it is just our Higher Power and us. It is an exciting part of our spiritual journey to develop new ways to pray, trusting our relationship with our Higher Power to deepen the experience. What matters is that we give ourselves to it. When our prayer is from the heart, we know it and are at peace.
Prayer is another word for “conscious contact with God as we understood Him,” which is important to my recovery. I’ll take time today to pray.
Hazelden Foundation
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