April 24 – Learning Healthy Love

We're all born with a God-sized hole in our hearts, and we spend a lot of years trying to fill it with everything but God. Today Mike and Corey dig into one of the more vulnerable topics the Daily Ripples has touched — loneliness, and the unhealthy patterns it drives. Controlling others. Depending on them too heavily. Chasing relationships to quiet the emptiness inside. Both men get honest about how that played out in their own lives, and how the path forward wasn't filling the hole differently — it was letting God take care of the soul work while they focused on taking care of others. Corey lands it simply: God takes care of me if I take care of others. Never the other way around. The stone for today: Loneliness often drives us to unhealthy patterns. We may try to control others or depend on them too heavily, hoping they will fill the emptiness within. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at [email protected]. Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.