{"id":2424,"date":"2025-06-13T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:34:28","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-june-13th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days June 13th 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-26f88d9ea7673a2c9e01daed54e66154\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly<\/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-3b3f1c11dfc15facb77b8be324589f41\"><strong>Listening<\/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-7566485d98bb71fa81ee9091d042ae34\"><strong>If we really listen, we inform ourselves. Too often,<br>we rely on assumptions instead. The trouble with<br>that is that we then believe they are the truth. Soon<br>we have created a whole mountain of problems for<br>ourselves. If we had simply listened and asked<br>questions, we could have avoided most of the<br>problems. We make assumptions usually because<br>we are too afraid or too lazy to ask questions.<br>Choosing the softer, easier way can become a habit.<br>Am I willing to stop making assumptions and to ask<br>questions instead?<\/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-adfe1aceb80efcc6f331bcfd7c06409b\"><strong>When I ask questions, I receive answers that<br>increase my understanding, and I may also help<br>others learn at the same time. That doesn\u2019t happen<br>when I make assumptions instead. If my goal is<br>spiritual growth, then questions will help me to<br>achieve this a lot quicker than assumptions. Today,<br>I ask God for the wisdom<\/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 close eyes briefly Listening If we really listen, we inform ourselves. Too often,we rely on assumptions instead. The trouble withthat is that we then believe they are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2424\">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":[11,28,27,30,33,23,32],"class_list":["post-2424","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-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-fellowship","tag-meditation","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2425"}],"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=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}