Spirituality in Recovery with Vince Talks Recovery
Awakening to the discovery of your personal spirituality in recovery . The four basic questions of spirituality and what is spirituality?
In1978 I was visiting a rehab center in Northeast Philadelphia for drugs and alcohol. One of the staff members invited me for lunch. While we ate he asked me to stay and give a lecture to his patients. He told me to speak on spirituality. Don’t ask me why, but I said I would and gave a talk for one hour. At the end he told me that it was really god and asked me to come back and give that talk once a month. I told him I didn’t remember what I said. He had taped it and gave it to me and I listened to it on my way home. I got a lot out of it. I know today it wasn’t me giving the talk it was my God reaching out to me. I truly believe today that God speaks to us through his people. This is a summary of that experience where I learned the true meaning of spirituality. It means to awaken to a discovery of our spirit. Each one of us was created by God for a purpose. I know that to be a spiritual person is just to enjoy being you. Below are the four spiritual questions.
Do you love yourself? I know that unless I really love myself I can’t give love to others. I pray every day that I can learn and accept who I am. We are not mistakes. Every human being is connected to our Creator. The greatest adventure is to invest in living and being positive to yourself. An old song says, “Getting to know me is getting to love me”. Let’s all take time to celebrate who you are.
Do you like yourself? Today I can say that my name is Vince DiPasquale and I am the only one there is of me on this earth. The only one who has to like me is me. We must all learn to be comfortable in our own skin. Celebrate yourself today and every day.
Do you respect yourself? This is a special question that tells us to take responsibility for our lives. I am responsible for my journey which means to no longer play the blame game or the victim game. Each one of us is the architect of our life. To be responsible is to be free.
Do you care about yourself? Each one of us is God’s creation. We need to ask ourselves some questions. Do we treat our bodies as something scared to be honored? Do we take time to respect it with exercise, good food and adequate rest? Do we have gratitude for the body God gave us?
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