TOPICS 7/22/25💌
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1)My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.”
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76
The essence of Step Seven is humility, and what better way to seek humility than by giving all of myself–good and bad–to God, so that He may remove the bad and return to me the good.
AS BILL SEES IT
2) “Let us always love the best in others–and never fear their worst.”
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong. When this happens, we approach true tolerance and we see what real love for our fellows actually means.
FORGIVING AND MOVING ON
3) Today I will not run away from despair. I am not here to only feel good and to take life easy. Despair in recovery can mean that I am letting go of old ways of coping and trying to learn new ones. If I deny myself my greatest pain I will keep myself from my deepest joy. There will be lessons and quiet miracles, freedom from inner bondage and calm after turbulence. All that I go through has a purpose if I choose to look at it that way.
DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY
4) Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
-Harriet Uts Nelson
We could make long lists of legitimate complaints against those who have offended us. Even though we have been denied what is essential, we must think long and hard about the consequences of withholding forgiveness. even though holding an external grudge seems not only emotionally necessary but reasonable, we need to realize that harboring resentment makes us- again -victims
Forgiveness is in our own self interest. Refusal can chain us forever to the hideous situation we won’t let go of. We can’t get free until we forgive.