Today's Thought - August

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August 25

I can identify with anybody—a feeling is a feeling.

~Anonymous

Feelings are no respecters of age, gender, marital status, wealth, position in the community, intelligence, or any other standard we use to gauge and categorize other people. A teenage boy knows what an older woman means when she says, “I was scared to death, but I didn’t know what I was scared of.” My heart melted; my stomach turned over; my skin crawled; a feeling of dread spread through me; my heart was thumping—we are all familiar with feelings, though we may not always know at any particular moment what caused them.

No matter who we are or what we’ve done, we can identify with each other. We are God’s creation, and we were made alike in love. We created our own fear, but we can return—anytime we want to—to God’s love, the great equalizer.

I will say today, “I know how you feel,” and mean it.

Today's reading is from the book In God's Care, Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery