Partners in Hope

As long as we are living and breathing, there is hope for us today.

Negative feelings often contribute to our inability to do the daily things we need to do as we stay clean and sober, and unless we are careful, may lead us to relapse. How can God help in these circumstances?

We need to learn to “say what we mean and mean what we say.”

Someone once said, “The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.” I like that. There are so many opportunities around us every single day – opportunities to encourage, to lend a helping hand, to just listen and be with someone who is struggling.  The list is endless.  Today we pray to recognize and use well the opportunities that this day gives us.

Anyone who has tried to break free from the harmful use of a substance or an addictive habit understands temptation. We all know how easy it is to lie to ourselves until we are convinced that something we have been yearning for will make us happy and help us solve all our problems – only to relearn that painful lesson that things only get worse, not better.  Jesus knows best of all how difficult it is to deal with temptation. He'll show us what to do to live above temptation.

We all have friends we don’t know what we’d do without – friends who have been there for us through thick and thin – friends we could turn to when we needed help and they’d be there for us.  The Bible got it right when it says: A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. Proverbs 17:17