Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects and in our common striving to overcome them. — Bill Wilson
Our primary purpose in recovery is to help each other and those who will come after us. What an interesting task for self-centered people! By helping each other overcome defects of character, we forget about ourselves, and the voice of our ego grows less intense. The fellowship of recovery works to break down self-centeredness and to remind us that we cannot do it alone.
We must never forget that it is in the “we” of the program that we find relief from the “me” of addiction. It is in the “we” that we find the answers to the troubles and challenges life will give us. Loving relationships ask that we step outside of ourselves into a larger world. Do we believe more in the “we” of recovery or in the “me” of ego?
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me overcome my defects of character by guiding me deeper into the “we” of recovery.
Today’s Action
Today I will call my sponsor and talk with him or her about how I can be of better service to others.
Hazelden Foundation
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