Thursday, May 2, 2024
Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Your feeling of being unforgiven and unforgivable is what makes you suffer so. But it only exists in your heart or mind.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche
Step Five shows us the way to self‑acceptance and self‑esteem as we acknowledge to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to a trusted person all those things we wish we'd done differently. The prospect of laying bare our whole past may seem formidable to us at first, but when we risk doing it, we can begin to change.
We can learn to forgive ourselves when we understand that we're not alone in our feelings or actions, that we are forgivable, and that we have already begun to change from the moment we became willing to admit the exact nature of our wrongs. The burden of guilt and shame is lifted from us when we let in the unconditional love of people we trust. Like all human beings, we are entitled to it.
Today, I forgive myself.
Hazelden Foundation
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