Recovery Meditations

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.

The Christmas season is one that can be filled with wonder.

Step-10 encourages us to regularly take personal inventory and when we are wrong about anything to promptly admit it.

In many places in the Bible we read that God’s love endures forever.

Our self-esteem is based on how we evaluate and see ourselves.

Those of us who have acted on the saying “God could and would, if He were sought” have witnessed the blessing of God in our lives.

How many of us got ourselves into trouble by our lack of wisdom and understanding of life and where it would lead us if we pursued a rebellious course?

In the Bible we read of many festivals the people celebrate because God intervened on their behalf.

People in recovery are those who want to learn from the experience, strength, and hope of others.

Joseph and Mary were a family in crisis. Mary, by God’s plan and action, was pregnant prior to being married to Joseph.

Step-9 requires that we make direct amends to the people we have harmed, except when to do so would further harm them or others.

As kids many of us sang an action song with the words, “the head bone connected to the neck bone, the neck bone connected to the shoulder bone” and on and on down the bones to the toes.