Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. — W. T. Grenfell
Joy, like happiness and freedom, is a major prize of recovery. And like these other two conditions, joy eludes those who seek it directly. It is a result of, and dependent on, something else.
Joy is a secondary effect of a primary action. When we create an environment that supports and encourages someone else, we find joy in the doing. There may be no more valuable human enterprise than lightening someone else’s load, leading someone who’s lost to the safe road, or extending a hand to someone who has fallen.
Such opportunities present themselves daily to recovering people. At every meeting, we’re in touch with people who greatly need the counsel, wisdom, and example of those who have made a decision about the past, have left behind what was, and are creating sweet new days as they walk the path of recovery.
If we hope to know joy, we must share what we have.
Today, I will pass along the kindness that has been shown me.
Hazelden Foundation
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