{"id":2526,"date":"2025-07-05T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:20:09","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-july-5th-by-chris-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=2526","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days July 5th 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-a715630502dc047fac85cb5fd7bc23b9\"><strong>Help to change<\/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-2353c1808717c3196a74f5576c991d07\"><strong>Honesty, openness and willingness to change are<br>three essentials of successful recovery. Openness is<br>important because it allows us to accept new ideas.<br>These can take many forms but one of the most<br>surprising for some people is the idea of a Higher<br>Power. Yet, anyone looking back at our past and the<br>change that has happened since, might conclude<br>that they see something pretty miraculous. How do<br>people who have been written off as hopelessly<br>addicted manage to turn their lives around? Since<br>we were unable to help ourselves at that time, some<br>other powerful force must have appeared.<\/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-bf6e7a16bbfbe84186faac9d78da57b3\"><strong><br>A miracle is an extraordinary event that is not<br>explicable by natural or scientific laws. Life itself is<br>one \u2013 nobody has been able to explain scientifically<br>how it first happened. I am not being asked to believe<br>in a specific source of power in the universe. I am<br>simply asked to open my mind to the idea that<br>there is a power of some kind that is greater than<br>me and which helps me if asked. I can feel that<br>power in the experience, strength and support of<br>other people. May it always be there for us all, so<br>that what I see darkly, I will see face to face one day.<\/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 Help to change Honesty, openness and willingness to change arethree essentials of successful recovery. 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