{"id":1664,"date":"2025-11-03T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:52:22","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-november-3rd-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days November 3rd 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-26f88d9ea7673a2c9e01daed54e66154\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly<\/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-b4c77e80eeca940e9f5b5621ea1b5fea\"><strong><br>Happiness<\/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-5ab844bc8007eedec88f926cf8cef193\"><strong><br>Fly with the crows, get shot with the crows is an old<br>way of saying: stay away from bad company. But that<br>does not mean we should isolate. Leave the crows<br>behind and join the bluebirds of happiness instead.<br>There is something very attractive about the freeflying<br>lifestyle of the bird \u2013 English literature is<br>packed with bird metaphors and references:<br><em>Higher still and higher<br>From the earth thou springest<br>Like a cloud of fire;<br>The blue deep thou wingest.<br>Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark.<\/em><br>All nature is about change and growth \u2013 which is<br>what we are after. Am I seeking growth and<br>progress, not perfection?<\/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-ac70fbceaf14fe8553e79c721b8b4e8d\"><strong>Happiness should not be seen as a destination but as<br>a choice, or a result of a series of choices. Every day<br>we make thousands of choices, some big some small.<br>Happiness comes from making the right choices<br>and also from being able to cope, when we make<br>wrong ones. The Twelve Steps teach us honesty,<br>humility and acceptance so that being wrong no<br>longer seems like disaster. A calm contentment is<br>quite sufficient for today, and I give thanks.<\/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 close eyes briefly Happiness Fly with the crows, get shot with the crows is an oldway of saying: stay away from bad company. 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