Friday, Nov. 4, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Shut up and listen! — Anne Arthur
Sometimes we need to do ourselves a favor and “shut up and listen.” Depending on our family, we may have heard the words “Shut up!” many times daily. To counter the verbal abuse, we might have learned to carry on an inner dialogue to drown out these words. That way of coping served us well. However, it became our habit to shut others out, regardless of their words, and now we need to break that habit. It serves us no more. In fact, it harms us.
We have learned that our Higher Power often tries to reach us through the words of a friend. If we have an inner dialogue going on, we will not hear the guidance we seek. We have heard many times in Twelve Step meetings the saying “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Being quiet is being ready.
I will be ready for my lesson today. I will listen intently to the words of my friends.
Hazelden Foundation
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