Friday, July 3, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Why, then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare
We had little doubt, as youngsters, that the world was our oyster, and we were going to make of it what we chose. But somewhere along the line, that oyster got tougher to open. It was our world, all right, but we failed somehow to become a part of it. Many of us felt (still feel at times) that we were on the outside looking in, estranged from our world and its inhabitants.
This feeling changes as we use the tools of our program. We find that being able to help one another with our feelings of estrangement is a gift of our Higher Power. Understanding each other’s fears, we can offer comfort. We use the swords of love and friendship to pry the halves of the shell apart—and then the world is indeed our oyster. For we’ve found, thanks to the fulfillment of the promises of our program, that we have unlimited potential. We are all God’s children, all loved, all included.
I want no one to feel like a stranger in my world.
Hazelden Foundation
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