{"id":708,"date":"2024-03-20T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2024-03-20T06:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:27:54","slug":"daily-reading-by-chris-march-20th-recovery-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading by Chris March 20th Recovery Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-0d501a51a180f096c638602eb010c33c\"><strong>See VIDEO on Facebook:<\/strong>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/792108109453009\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/792108109453009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1eda49c74799041e87d2be6c85570783\"><strong>Daily Thoughts on Living in Recovery<\/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-82b1d0e550b32c1fc2a64ef7c06bb71c\"><strong>Willingness 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-24cf5ca9b308f9e5d05d7023af8124a1\"> <strong><em>The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. (Bill W).<\/em> Personal change always has two parts \u2013 the willingness and the action. But in between comes a third part \u2013 commitment. Commitment turns theory into practice. When we are motivated to do something, it is not always because we have a strong sense of commitment. Motivation can have a short life, but commitment lasts until the job is done. A bad hangover can motivate you to give up booze \u2013 until cravings appear. Am I fully committed 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-2e10aa8f5c970a66d6dfe1b757558475\"><strong>Just as surrender has to be total and not just a ceasefire, so commitment has to be total and not just a dalliance. In recovery, surrender can be seen as letting others help us and commitment can be seen as letting us help ourselves. Neither will work unless done wholeheartedly. I ask God today for the honesty to commit myself fully to the process of change because half measures will not help me.<\/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-d73f9836bc50f54e47c909c56371a7e1\"><strong><em>Today I Will\u2026<\/em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,30,23],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}