{"id":2352,"date":"2026-05-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:07:24","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-22nd-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 22nd by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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-647ca779f92784e18e1ed6fe47f19146 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Love<\/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-dcd10d185f12b7dbfbad93883a8ab7a7 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Romantic love is a fine thing, especially at the<br>movies, but love is not about dependence: \u2018I can\u2019t<br>live without you\u2019 amounts to codependency. Love is<br>essentially what you do for another person. It is an<br>activity, not a feeling. That is what makes it so<br>powerful \u2013 if we all have love in our hearts, we are<br>actively working to help each other. Morgan Scott<br>Peck, author of The Road Less Travelled, said<br>exactly this. It came as a shock to some people. Do I<br>understand that real love is unselfish?<\/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-24329cb02aa28d98a21e535643edf70a wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>Step Eight is about brotherly love. It is the time<br>when we stop focusing on ourselves and look at the<br>damage we have done to others and what we can do<br>about it. Making amends is about honesty, courage,<br>forgiveness \u2013 and love. It is asking myself: What can<br>I do for this other person that I have hurt? It does<br>not matter how painful it is to make amends, we<br>have to be rigorously honest in all our affairs. The<br>truth will set us free, though it may hurt a bit too. If<br>we are going to truly love ourselves and our fellow<br>human beings, we must take this Step in courage<br>and humility. Today I ask to show true love.<\/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 Love Romantic love is a fine thing, especially at themovies, but love is not about dependence: \u2018I can\u2019tlive without you\u2019 amounts to codependency. Love isessentially what you do for another person. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2352\">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":[11,15,28,27,30,33,23,22,32],"class_list":["post-2352","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-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2353"}],"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=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}