{"id":961,"date":"2024-05-18T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:47:08","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-may-17th-read-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days May 18th Read 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-289b2fc666045648611131bbd291ef67\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p<\/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-8af3197cab742cd6115e0eaf225b2698\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120<\/a><\/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-0f70e924b634251cfc899c396e8d8859\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually<\/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-322ee129cec8887a9aeef4666db26f5e\"><strong><br>Integrity<\/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-3b1072ea8fa6f6e6f738db9ace8853fb\"><strong><br>In normal life we hardly realise how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who wrote these words while in prison awaiting execution by the Nazis, was unusual in returning from America to Germany in 1939, at a time when others were fleeing. He saw his duty to oppose Hitler and later died as a result. A brave man who listened to his conscience and stood up for his beliefs. True integrity is surely to do just that. Am I ready to follow my conscience and stand up for my beliefs?<\/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-04bfbe2ffc80c3f674084a63a9742d01\"><strong><br>I can live a perfectly normal life once I accept that my life is never going to be perfectly normal. Ceasing my previous insane behaviour is a start. When I was regularly repeating the self-destructive cycle of addiction, there was no normality at all. I now attempt to make the right choices on the basis of sensible criteria, even if I don\u2019t always get things right. I will not dwell on the past. Today I ask that I may give as much as I am able, because it is in giving that we receive.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=p View VIDEO on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120 Remember Mindfulness \u2013 relax your whole body gradually Integrity In normal life we hardly realise how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=961\">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":[14,31,20],"tags":[11,27,33,35,23,22,36],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-connection","tag-fellowship","tag-inspiration","tag-meditation","tag-recovery","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/998"}],"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=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}