{"id":2246,"date":"2025-04-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:05:23","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-april-21st-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days April 21st 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-8a52cb339febc663195a0b0aac892ded\"><\/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-cfb03ceca9988fb17274006ce1824828\"><strong>Respect for others<\/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-23abf0943e76b025df36b9c7f03649cc\"><strong>Ordinary people don\u2019t make a fuss about life &#8211; kids,<br>work, school, stress, relationships, tiredness,<br>kindness. The humdrum realities of life require a<br>special kind of dedication and commitment. The<br>single person raising a family on benefit while<br>perhaps recovering from addiction will never<br>receive a medal. Perhaps they will never be thanked<br>or remembered except by the few whose lives they<br>touched and made better, with an unsolicited act of<br>kindness. Do I respect my fellow men and women<br>and help them whenever I can?<\/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-6c7d563d00db05f2be3cb3e358732e85\"><strong>Selfishness and a rampant ego make it extremely<br>hard to perform unsolicited acts of kindness. They<br>probably make it extremely hard as well, to really<br>love someone. But if we cannot give love, how can<br>we expect to receive it? Christianity teaches that to<br>love is to suffer because the sublime feeling of love<br>is inevitably going to make us unhappy, if only one<br>day, by its absence. When a loved one suffers, we<br>suffer too. And when a loved one recovers, we rejoice<br>in that recovery. Love and suffering are connected.<br>Today I will remember that.<\/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 Respect for others Ordinary people don\u2019t make a fuss about life &#8211; kids,work, school, stress, relationships, tiredness,kindness. The humdrum realities of life require aspecial kind of dedication and commitment. 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