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Step 10 Emotional Sobriety is separate from abstinence and the foundation of happy, joyous and free. A daily check up from the neck up keeps me sweeping my own side of the street and is an investment in living my best life.

Hazelden Store: Recovery Road Episode 242 "As we work Step Ten and it becomes integrated into our life, we let go of trying to control the world—or other people."

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift to himself.

~Mother Teresa

In praying, some of us depend on the traditions of our religion, others on the instructions of spiritual leaders. Some of us just strike out on our own, not knowing what to say or what to do, yet believing that form is not as important as intent. We only know that when we do pray, something happens.

And each time we lift our thoughts to God, it is easier the next time. Then, as we keep praying, we discover that we have begun to establish a familiarity. Our heart is opening to God without our realizing it. When we are willing, God fills our heart. And even though we can leave God, and often do, God never leaves us.

I am grateful that God is in my heart. My prayer is one of thanks.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation