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Today's gift
Jan. 3rd, 2015 07:55 pmToday's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
When I came in, they told me, "Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself."
--Anonymous
It takes a long time to learn to love ourselves. So many things we've done seem hard to forgive. We might be trying to dig out from under tons of negative garbage, negative images. Fortunately, our friends do love us. That will sustain us as we try to get the picture of ourselves back into proper focus.
The thing we must get locked firmly in our mind is that it's all right to be who we have been and who we are now. We know how to repair the damage now.
I will try to love myself, remembering that other people love me as I am.
When I came in, they told me, "Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself."
--Anonymous
It takes a long time to learn to love ourselves. So many things we've done seem hard to forgive. We might be trying to dig out from under tons of negative garbage, negative images. Fortunately, our friends do love us. That will sustain us as we try to get the picture of ourselves back into proper focus.
The thing we must get locked firmly in our mind is that it's all right to be who we have been and who we are now. We know how to repair the damage now.
I will try to love myself, remembering that other people love me as I am.
You are reading from the book:
In God's Care by Karen Casey. © 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the permission of Hazelden.
