{"id":2121,"date":"2026-03-17T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:33:25","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-by-chris-b-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\">Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/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-01c81d7cab4a30e1ea777819245bc3fb\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes<\/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-1a2baccce102f05bf902893ba454b956\"><strong><br>Facing reality<\/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-d48177091bf31684b67b61e3ea0a8603\"><strong><br>Reality is truth. Facing reality is critically important<br>to living a life that is meaningful, principled and<br>worthwhile. If we cannot face reality, then any<br>decisions we make or courses of action we decide in<br>life are unsound because the factors we considered<br>may have been unreal. Reality is the road map we<br>follow through our life. If the map is incorrect, we<br>will probably get lost and the pain of doing so will be<br>considerable. Much better to have faced up to reality<br>before we started life\u2019s journey. Am I ready to face<br>reality in all my affairs?<\/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-0b120e9184d0e270e847e9f60933f714\"><strong><br>It is never too late to change:<br>I once was lost but now I\u2019m found,<br>Was blind, but now I see.<br>John Newton.<br>Newton\u2019s famous hymn Amazing Grace says it all.<br>He was in his fifties when he gave up slave trading<br>to become a cleric and abolitionist. Most addicted<br>people who sober up face the painful reality that<br>their lives are unmanageable. Without doing so,<br>they will struggle to stay sober. Today I ask to<br>understand the realities of addiction and sobriety<\/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 Facing reality Reality is truth. Facing reality is critically importantto living a life that is meaningful, principled andworthwhile. 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