{"id":2294,"date":"2026-05-03T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:46:48","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-3rd-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 3rd 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-782daad068584b6798565af9d6154218\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 review expectations<\/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-87b5edec4d446e3e84cdfa7fa9bad5a1\"><strong>Step Five<\/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-9043bca8a20fa250c1f42cd1917a34f7\"><strong>Step Four is known as the Step of courage and Step<br>Five, where we: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to<br>another human being the exact nature of our wrongs,<br>require courage too. Of course, all of the Steps<br>require courage so it\u2019s a good thing that we\u2019re<br>generally braver than we believe. The important<br>thing is to take that first small venture into the<br>unknown. Our Higher Power will not let us down.<br>Am I ready to trust in the help of my Higher Power?<\/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-f4066e88279be4df16fb2dd42c3b98f9\"><strong>He who has courage despises the future. The words of<br>the Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus<br>Aurelius tell us that he who makes the most of the<br>present has no need to fear the future. We may<br>procrastinate, we may even say that time itself will<br>change things but, in reality, the only way to make<br>change happen is for us to make that change<br>happen, a day at a time. When we do so, our life will<br>become like a book where each chapter is an<br>improvement on the one before. I ask for God\u2019s help<br>to find the courage to admit my wrongs because<br>without doing so, I cannot grow in my recovery<\/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 review expectations Step Five Step Four is known as the Step of courage and StepFive, where we: Admitted to God, to ourselves and toanother human being the exact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2294\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,26,33,32],"class_list":["post-2294","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-addiction-treatment","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-daily-reflections","tag-fellowship","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2295"}],"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=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}