lilgirllost
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Number of posts : 863
Age : 51
Location : live in Louisiana but attend MMT clinic in Tx
Job/hobbies : COUPONING & GEOCACHING are my favorite past times but I also love reading and spending time with my husband and kids
Humor : I don't have a sense of humor.............
Registration date : 2009-05-25
 | | Subject: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 7/26/09 Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:03 pm | |
| Honesty - What a novel concept, and an absolute necessity in recovery. We've become so accustomed in our addiction to lying to ourselves (and everyone else), that becoming honest is a radical change that is a mighty tall order to fulfill.
First, we must become honest with ourselves, and the first and most important step to achieving this is to admit we have a problem and that we need to do something about it.
The second thing is to be honest with one's own 'higher power' or 'a God of one's own understanding'. This, at first, involves admitting what we admitted to ourselves and asking for help in overcoming the addiction we're battling.
Third comes honesty with others. Through becoming honest with ourselves and our higher power, this becomes possible and achievable.
While honesty, by and of itself, does not constitute recovery, it is an integral part of it. Honesty must become a daily part of our lives: with ourselves, a God of our own understanding, and others.
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And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
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