Feb. 9, 2018 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Friday, Feb. 9, 2018
Today’s thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Our Higher Power is in charge

It’s such a relief to give up our obsession to control, once we learn how. As we do to establish any new routine, we have to practice. In this case, we practice turning people and circumstances over to God. Our first reaction will be the familiar one, always. For so long we thought we had to be in charge. It’s no wonder we felt crazy at times. We were trying to assure other people did the right thing, based on our perspective. Usually God, or they, had something else in mind.

Letting God hold the reins gives us a lot of extra time. We can narrow our focus to what we need to do today. And we can use our extra time to pray for the well-being of other people. Our payoff is feeling sane, peaceful, and rested at the end of each day.

I will enjoy the sanity of letting God take care of other people today. I’ll just take care of myself.

You are reading from the book:

A Life of My Own by Karen Casey. © 1993 by Hazelden Foundation

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