Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
It is our choices …that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
— J. K. Rowling
Many people with great abilities make bad choices. We just need to look around the rooms at meetings and we will see it. As addicts, we regularly chose alcohol or drugs over our family, Higher Power, and community. Our choices also affected our abilities. Then, at some point, we lost our choices, and our illness made our choices for us. This is what addiction is — the loss of choice.
Recovery gives back our sense of choice. Today we make different choices. We choose to go to meetings, even when we don’t want to. We choose to do service work. We learn a new way to walk through the world, a more human way. People see that we are making new choices, and over time they come to trust us again. This is another gift of recovery.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, I choose to turn my life and will over to you. Please give me the wisdom to make good choices.
Today’s Action
Today I will make a list of the everyday bad choices I made during my using years. Then I will ask myself, “Am I making the same choices today?”
Hazelden Foundation
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