Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone; but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.
— St. Ignatius Loyola
It’s a spiritual paradox that the more successful we feel in this program, the more convinced we are that it is not our doing. Our success depends on our Higher Power. None of us can say, “I did it.” As the quality of our life improves, though — as we grow calmer and more self assured — it is only natural for us to feel we’ve done something right.
We most assuredly have done something right if we are working the Twelve Steps of this program, for it is a stairway to communion with God, a stairway to serenity. The more time we spend on the Steps, the more time we spend with God. It’s that simple. So it is true that we work for our own success, and it is just as true that it comes from God.
My success depends on the effort I make in putting myself in the hands of God.
Hazelden Foundation
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