{"id":717,"date":"2024-03-22T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T06:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2024-03-22T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T07:13:22","slug":"daily-reading-march-22nd-from-recovery-days-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading March 22nd from Recovery Days by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f871598f2a7cf5e630abf8f72be696b7\"><strong>View this VIDEO on Facebook<\/strong>   <strong><a href=\" https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1114939736295224\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1114939736295224<\/a><\/strong><\/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-b4097efd5b07f87d20cebde366274307\"><strong>Daily Thoughts for Living in Recovery<\/strong> see TikTok VIDEO https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\/video\/7349080590685064481?lang=en<\/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-eaa1995339c4d8157c7b5774b22060e4\"><a><strong>* March 22 *<\/strong><\/a><\/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-39edae6eab553c57dec791b596455e8b\"><em><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly<\/strong><\/em><\/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-5c5f68bc8e72bbecf000cde0c26c6445\"><strong>Unknown God<\/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-292b1e43bbbad5ac580f789a43c09de0\"><strong>When St Paul visited Athens in AD 51, he was shocked to see that they had a temple dedicated to an \u2018Unknown God\u2019. This led him to berate the Athenians for their ignorance in one of his most famous sermons. The Athenians are said to have laughed. AA and the other Twelve Step fellowships have an unknown God too \u2013 Higher Power. They do not seek to define its nature precisely; they are glad simply to recognise the power itself. Probably, the Athenians felt the same way. The AA preamble, read before every meeting, states that: <em>AA neither endorses nor opposes any causes. <\/em>There are no dogmas or compulsions, we are free to believe what we wish. Am I grateful for the non-directive simplicity of the Twelve Step fellowships?<\/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-767e76694ad3117e5ceb7396dc1aa692\"><strong><em>We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men. (Bill W). <\/em>Today I give thanks that I belong to a fellowship that does not exclude or forbid the beliefs of any person who seeks help.<\/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-0105c428b0291096ebb906a449e8987c\"><strong><em>Today I Will\u2026<\/em>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this VIDEO on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1114939736295224 Daily Thoughts for Living in Recovery see TikTok VIDEO https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\/video\/7349080590685064481?lang=en * March 22 * Remember Mindfulness \u2013 close eyes briefly Unknown God When St Paul visited Athens in AD 51, he was shocked to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=717\">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":[14,31,20],"tags":[11,27,30],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}