Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
To understand all this a little better, it might help to look at someone who is quite the opposite.
—Benjamin Hoff
We addicts are a rigid, stubborn bunch. We often get something in our heads, and it seems to push all the questions out. Recovery suggests that we work to develop an open mind that wonders, questions, and is willing to cast doubts, even on our own motives.
One of the gifts of going to meetings is hearing the opinions of people whose thinking is directly opposite of ours. How often it happens that the person we see as having nothing to offer us ends up teaching us the most. This is the way of openness. Openness asks that we welcome the truth no matter who the messenger is. Openness is also an admission that we are incomplete and we need the new ideas, opinions, and suggestions of others.
Prayer for the Day
Openness allows me to hear the truth. Higher Power, you are the truth. Help me keep listening for your messages and guidance as they come to me through others.
Today’s Action
Today I will write down three times that my closed mind has gotten me struck or in trouble.
Hazelden Foundation
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