{"id":1619,"date":"2025-10-22T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:34:29","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-october-22nd-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days October 22nd by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/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-66adf122f1ce98ada33ab388cc6da6bf\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positive thoughts<\/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-6c1bf8f0543cd1ce4bc3d8591ab8ba26\"><strong><br>Religion<\/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-81cef02e00f50012d50a38341fd73b9f\"><br><strong>The Crusades, Terrorism, the Inquisition. So much<br>that is brutal and bad is done in the name of religion.<br>But it is done by men believing they are doing God\u2019s<br>will. God must be horrified. Religions bring<\/strong> a l<strong>ot of<br>good to the world too, but their complexity and<br>hierarchical structures often put people off. In<br>recovery, all we are looking for is help from a Power<br>greater than ourselves. We are certainly not trying to<br>promote religion of any kind. Do I accept that I need<br>help from a Power greater than myself?<\/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-e21abcaa6048808385b3cdb348b35a07\"><strong><br><em>To see a World in a Grain of Sand<br>And a Heaven in a Wild Flower<br>Hold Infinity in the Palm of your Hand<br>And Eternity in an Hour. William Blake<\/em>.<br>The poet seems to be saying we over-complicate our<br>lives in our search for meaning. Too much time is<br>spent trying to become well-informed and clever.<br>True wisdom is usually found in simplicity and<br>knowing when not to do things. The Twelve Step<br>fellowships tell us to \u2018Keep it Simple\u2019. When we<br>consciously try to do so, we can feel the benefit.<br>Today I will strive to keep things simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 send positive thoughts Religion The Crusades, Terrorism, the Inquisition. So muchthat is brutal and bad is done in the name of religion.But it is done by men believing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1619\">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":[14,17,31,20],"tags":[11,28,30,26,33,23],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-castle-craig","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1633"}],"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=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}