{"id":2339,"date":"2026-05-18T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:17:24","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-18th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 18th 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-0f70e924b634251cfc899c396e8d8859\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually<\/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-091e721087e2958d0b4b89d73f041926\"><strong>Integrity<\/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-71cee960db3fc050ee26000e75a97af1\"><strong><em>In normal life we hardly realise how much more<br>we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without<br>such gratitude.<\/em> Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who<br>wrote these words while in prison awaiting<br>execution by the Nazis, was unusual in returning<br>from America to Germany in 1939, at a time when<br>others were fleeing. He saw his duty to oppose<br>Hitler and later died as a result. A brave man who<br>listened to his conscience and stood up for his<br>beliefs. True integrity is surely to do just that. Am I<br>ready to follow my conscience and stand up for my<br>beliefs?<\/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-410f032c80d152e11a4783ee160023ee\"><strong><br>I can live a perfectly normal life once I accept that<br>my life is never going to be perfectly normal.<br>Ceasing my previous insane behaviour is a start.<br>When I was regularly repeating the self-destructive<br>cycle of addiction, there was no normality at all. I<br>now attempt to make the right choices on the basis<br>of sensible criteria, even if I don\u2019t always get things<br>right. I will not dwell on the past. Today I ask that I<br>may give as much as I am able, because it is in<br>giving that we receive.<\/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 relax your whole body gradually Integrity In normal life we hardly realise how much morewe receive than we give, and life cannot be rich withoutsuch gratitude. 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