{"id":2168,"date":"2026-03-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:13:35","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-march-28th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days March 28th 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-c92c3be4aa006b0a35cf017c48990f97\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 breathe deeply<\/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-e0243976f11ee9127c0f1d09b72b5149\"><strong>Happiness in recovery<\/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-60183bbed37c61284673a0937a31bd47\"><strong>Man hands on misery to man are the famous words<br>of poet Philip Larkin. If man could just learn to<br>hand on happiness instead, how much pleasanter<br>everything would be. We should not think it<br>impossible. Some people do just that. They are the<br>people for whom, when someone mentions their<br>name, everybody smiles because they<br>subconsciously remember something nice about<br>them. It says a lot about the state of the world that<br>so many of us need to learn how to find happiness<br>because our default state seems to be quiet<br>desperation. But that should not stop us for seeking.<br>Do I consider happiness a reasonable aspiration, the<br>legitimate result of a life well lived?<\/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-ab5c636378e7ce1c535ca2db99e7954d\"><strong>Happiness is not a goal in itself &#8211; it is the by-product<br>of actions and attitudes that are spiritually and<br>morally valid. The Big Book tells us that, if we live<br>according to spiritual principles and apply<br>ourselves to the programme, we will know a new<br>freedom and a new happiness. We can see this for<br>ourselves in the faces of our friends in recovery and<br>in the faces of loved ones. Today I ask God for<br>patience to wait for the gift of happiness.<\/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 breathe deeply Happiness in recovery Man hands on misery to man are the famous wordsof poet Philip Larkin. If man could just learn tohand on happiness instead, how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2168\">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":[28,27,30,26,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2169"}],"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=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}