Just For Today - Filling the emptiness

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September 15

Filling the emptiness

"...we think that if we can just get enough food, enough sex, or enough money, we'll be satisfied and everything will be alright." Basic Text, p. 80 ––––=–––– In our addiction, we could never get enough drugs, or money, or sex, or anything else.  Even too much was never enough!  There was a spiritual emptiness inside us.  Though we tried as hard as we could to fill that emptiness ourselves, we never succeeded.  In the end, we realized that we lacked the power to fill it; it would take a Power greater than ourselves to do that. So we stopped using, and we stopped trying to fill the emptiness in our gut with things.  We turned to our Higher Power, asking for its care, strength, and direction.  We surrendered and made way for that Power to begin the process of filling our inner void.  We stopped grabbing things and started receiving the free gift of love our Higher Power had for us.  Slowly, our inner emptiness was being filled. Now that we've been given our Higher Power's gift of love, what do we do with it?  If we clasp that gift tightly to ourselves, we will smother it.  We must remember that love grows only when it is shared.  We can only keep this gift by freely giving it away.  The world of addiction is a world of taking and being taken; the world of recovery is a world of giving and being given.  In which world do we choose to live? ––––=–––– Just for today:  I choose to live in the fullness of recovery.  I will celebrate my conscious contact with the God of my understanding by freely sharing with others that which has been freely shared with me.

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