Recovery Meditations

Years of aimless living in addiction kept us from becoming focused, well-organized, and productive.

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with selfishness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

Leaving behind a lifestyle of self-centered isolation and coming into community with others is both a gift and a challenge.

How many of us check out the soil in which we want to grow plants or vegetables?

Feelings cannot always be trusted. They often point us to an incorrect perception of who we are, who God is, and what is happening in our circumstances.

When we have admitted to ourselves and another human being the harm we have caused, the next step is to ask God to forgive us for our self-centered way of living.

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

Have you tried putting together a toy or a piece of furniture which came with detailed instructions which you ignored, and then near the end, found an important piece that actually needed to go in place at the start for the whole thing to fit together?

We may not see what goes on inside us, but the Bible tells us there is a battle going on for control of our minds.

A saying we often hear in stormy life circumstances and recovery circles is "live one day at a time.

Deep within each person is the desire for approval from others – particularly from those we consider significant to us.

Even though we usually associate individuals living in addiction as “party people” the truth is that using substances almost always takes away from our ability to relate to other people, to form friendships, and to do meaningful things with them.