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Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
REFLECTION
It’s hard to love an asshole, but apparently, it’s good for us.
Love certainly doesn’t mean enable or excuse, but it does mean to treat with dignity, pray for, empathize with, and encourage.
Oh, how many people have tried to love us in and through our addiction!
And thank God they did.
Who’s to know which or how many of those prayers were vital to our eventual recovery?
It’s a shame then when now that we are sober, the first things that return are our opinions and judgements of others.
Often, we look down on others who will hopefully one day find recovery, but who are in the meantime simply trodding along the very path we were so recently paving ahead of them.
Brokenness is a gift of heart fertility.
For a brief spell, the pain of finally giving up has tilled our heart to such a great degree that we are wide open to a swath of emotions that had previously been muted and kept at bay while we chased after our basic drivers of pleasure.
Now that we’ve conceded to His help in actually invading our very soul, we realize the tenuous path we were on, the chaos that pervaded our lives and the grace that now rescues us.
Others’ love may have helped get us sober, but now we need to borrow God’s love so we don’t fall back into sullenness, depression and self-centered apathy.
Usually these follow the ecstasy of newfound sobriety. Growing up isn’t easy, after all. But His love is sufficient.
God, help me see myself and others through your eyes.
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