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Inner Harvest 3/5
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 03:43 AM (34 Views)
ed-gracetoday
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"Inner Harvest"
Hazelden Meditation Series

Recovery's challenge--learning to love.

Excess food won't make us happy. Neither will excess dieting. We need real,
live people to satisfy our emotional hunger.

And they're all around us--in our families, at school, at work, in the
community. First, we acknowledge that we need people: a box of cookies is no
substitute for a friend and neither is a "perfect" day, when we restrict our
eating to a single salad. Then we take the risk of opening up, of becoming
vulnerable, of giving time, care, and attention to someone else.

One of the nice things about loving is that we don't have to do it perfectly
to reap benefits. Even a little love makes a big difference in how we feel.

Another nice thing about love is that through our Higher Power we have
access to an inexhaustible supply. The more love we give away, the more we
get back.

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Learning to love invites my full attention. I may not do it perfectly, but
today I can deepen my commitment to those whom I love.



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Yup...I may make mistakes, but the love is always there, and I can't give more away...God is always there to love through me---and Jesus is always there loving me. Today, right now, I pray to deepen my commitment to those I love--and to love -through Christ, - those I haven't loved in the past, in the present, and in the future. I will look at them through the eyes of God--and love them because He does.

[Learning to love invites my full attention. I may not do it perfectly, but
today I can deepen my commitment to those whom I love.]

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Your enthusiasm is quite contagious! :praise:
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