{"id":1005,"date":"2024-05-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2024-05-21T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T05:12:23","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-22nd-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 22nd by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-289b2fc666045648611131bbd291ef67\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8af3197cab742cd6115e0eaf225b2698\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-258da252df74125bbd33e57e03a136fc\"><strong>Remember<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>Mindfulness<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>close<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>eyes<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>brie<\/strong><strong>fl<\/strong><strong>y<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-17ec9e1ae7badce89194120a851b69d9\"><strong>Love<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e33ede637b92c551b6c50bc23bbd4d32\"><strong>Romantic love is a fine thing, especially at the movies, but love is not about dependence: \u2018I can\u2019t live without you\u2019 amounts to codependency. Love is essentially what you do for another person. It is an activity, not a feeling. That is what makes it so powerful \u2013 if we all have love in our <\/strong><strong>hearts, we are actively working to help each other. Morgan Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Travelled, said exactly this. It came as a shock to some people. Do I understand that real love is unselfish?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-122ab0cafaa350f77e085a547d453baa\"><strong>Step Eight is about brotherly love. It is the time when we stop focusing on ourselves and look at the damage we have done to others and what we can do about it. Making amends is about <\/strong><strong>honesty, courage, forgiveness \u2013 and love. It is asking myself: <em>What can I do for this other person that I have hurt? <\/em>It does not matter how painful it is to make amends, we have to be rigorously honest in all our affairs. The truth will set us free, though it may hurt a bit too. If we are going to truly love ourselves and our fellow human beings, we must take this Step in courage and humility. Today I ask to show true love.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p View VIDEO on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120 Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly Love Romantic love is a fine thing, especially at the movies, but love is not about dependence: \u2018I can\u2019t live without you\u2019 amounts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1005\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[11,28,26,33,23,22],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-castle-craig","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}