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* April 6 *

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Giving it away to keep it

To paraphrase a US President: “Ask not what your recovery can do for you but what you can do for your recovery.” (Kennedy). A happy recovery is not possible if we are driven by our egos. We must give recovery away in order to keep it. Another President (Roosevelt) announced a ‘New Deal’ to end the great Depression in the 1930’s. Recovery is our New Deal, and we have to make it work. Fortunately, in the Twelve Step fellowships, we have the means, so that “recovery of, by and for addicted people”, is entirely possible. It is our blessing and our salvation. That’s quite enough paraphrasing. Will I work to keep my recovery by giving it away?

Give and it will be given to you. With the blessing of recovery comes responsibility to pass it on to the less fortunate. We should never allow ourselves to be simply takers because selfishness inevitably causes alienation and leads us back to isolation and self- protective attitudes. Before we know it, we are back in the vicious cycle of meeting our own selfish needs before everything else. Today I ask God for the gift of altruism so that I may help myself by helping others.

Today I Will………………………………………………………