Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024
Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The First Hour
Every recovery from addiction begins with one clean and sober hour.
-- Anonymous
It is amazing to watch a television program and see how the most complicated life situations are resolved in less than thirty minutes. Those of us who have made a heavy diet of television probably wonder deep down why our problems are not solved quickly in recovery. When we were drinking and drugging, thirty minutes was plenty of time to dissolve a problem into oblivion.
Recovery isn’t like TV. We can't change the channel if we don't like the program.
There are two facts we can't escape in our program and recovery: treatment begins with one clean and sober hour, and the cure will take a lifetime.
The good news is that the focus of recovery is on the treatment, not the cure. And while there might not always be something good on TV, there's always something good on the program.
I will remember that recovery is a process, not an event.
Hazelden Foundation
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