There are times when caring for others gets out of hand and turns into enabling. Doing for others what they can do for themselves may not be in their best interest.

Above all, we have to be careful we don’t give away our dignity and spiritual sense of self.

If you want to give something away, have you considered sharing . . .

Your joy

A smile

A gentle touch

Hope

An ear to hear.

Like the 5 loaves and the 2 fish,

when you give goodness away,

you’ll discover there’s plenty more where that came from!

Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.