April 14, 2026 - Denial

My thought for today is Denial. Denial is seeing things as you need to see them in order to keep drinking or drugging or doing whatever it is that is making your life unmanageable. When denial becomes intertwined with self-pity, it is even more dangerous. The two are linked to self-centeredness. The quickest way out of denial and self-pity is by doing service because service helps us to forget self and once we begin to do that, we no longer feel the poor me mentality. Once we begin to question the lies we have been telling ourselves, a crack forms in our denial. That crack is where willingness enters. Once we begin to realize that I can't, but He can, then we become willing to stop believing the lie, we become willing to let Him show us how much better our lives can be. It's all connected; the trick is finding the dots.