Recovery Meditations

Within each personal story of the journey from bondage to freedom is the power of the Gospel to save those who are lost.

In Step-11 we commit through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God.

As we watch the news in review on television these days we realize again how the events of this past year were so far beyond anything we imagined at this time last year.

After all the hype and preparation for Christmas, especially during this very strange year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we return now to ordinary days.

Christmas -- it really happened! God came to our planet.

Statistics tell us that 7 out of 10 shoppers on Christmas Eve will be men doing panic shopping for those they love.

Christmas decorations have been up for weeks. We don’t know what that will look like this year with pandemic restrictions impacting businesses and our own personal movements.

I wonder what people said on the day that we were born.

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere this is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

We are fast approaching the annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, the one God sent to save us and give us new life.

E About eight hundred years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God foretold His birth through the prophet Isaiah.

S As the Twelve Traditions are read at the meetings we attend, we join the reader on the final phrase with the words, “principles before personalities.