Recovery Meditations

Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful.

Addicts tell lies. We tell ourselves we need our substance of choice to deal with the day.

For all of us there came a time when we could no longer avoid the realization that our lives were a mess.

We don’t really know God until we know that God is love and that God’s love for us is unfailing.

Honesty, balance, and realism are essential tools to keep at hand as we sort out and rebuild relationships.

We are exposed to traumatic events in the world by the 24-hour news cycle on television and on our digital devices.

Anger in our society is rampant. Most of us have a hard time dealing with anger.

When we tell someone how much we appreciate who they are or what they have done, we are lifting them up and valuing their service.

God invites us to a life of gentleness where we honour speaking the truth in love and respect the dignity of everyone, including ourselves.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

We will experience freedom and fulfillment in life only when God’s desires become our desires, God’s way becomes our way, and God’s word becomes our action plan.

In the Bible we read many stories of how Jesus was sensitive to people and to what they were going through, and how He reached out to them with compassion.