Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
—Anonymous
When it is a struggle to believe that we’re hopeful, productive, and capable of caring for and loving others, we may have to pretend that we are all of these things. The program calls this acting as if. We can act as if we’re hopeful; we can act as if we’re productive; we can act as if we care. We may not have a long record of being all these things, and we may not even know how sometimes, but we don’t have to. We have a promise that our Higher Power is caring for us and will help us do the things we can’t do on our own.
Acting as if is hard work; it takes constant letting go. We may feel totally unqualified to live in reality and resentful that we have to. Our grandiosity whispers that reality is boring and beneath us. We are “special”; we don’t have to follow the same rules other people do.
Consciously turning our wills and our lives over to God stills the addictive voice and focuses our energy on real life. We become part of life, rather than an adversary. And we feel the pleasure of our efforts.
If today is a day to act as if, I will accept it and do my best.
Hazelden Foundation
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