{"id":2365,"date":"2026-05-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:23:59","slug":"daily-readings-from-recovery-days-may-26th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"Daily Readings from Recovery Days May 26th 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-4c4221a0dad19d1bba7fde8bfc3ce0d3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 enjoy the moment<\/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-80892ee62f38d1b200e01f87b5e5f73a wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>How important is it?<\/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-d064077e69f4871e6aa344baa007a5b7 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>King Midas of Phrygia was granted by the Gods the<br>power to turn everything he touched into gold.<br>Unfortunately, this meant his food, his wine and<br>even his daughter became gold within a short time.<br>Luckily the Gods relented before he died of<br>starvation, but he had learnt a valuable lesson:<br>there are more important things in life than gold. A<br>lot of people nowadays don\u2019t seem to have<br>noticed. They pursue wealth as if it is the answer to<br>everything. Do I understand that money is not the<br>answer to all my problems?<\/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-4ca8d1a83db696eac42cfc62146369da wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br>American Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away all<br>his eight-billion-dollar fortune, living his last days in<br>a rented apartment, owning just one pair of shoes.<br>He was influenced by early twentieth century<br>benefactor Andrew Carnegie\u2019s dictum: <em>To die rich is<br>to die disgraced<\/em>. His message to other billionaires<br>thinking of giving while living was: Try it, you\u2019ll like<br>it. Today I ask to remember that by giving, I will<br>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 enjoy the moment How important is it? 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