Recovery Meditations

As we have experienced healing and transformation through daily living in the love and grace of God, we need to share our story – our experience, strength, and hope – with others.

Who can we trust? Who's reliable? Who tells the truth?

We begin the process of changing our selfish way of living by turning our will and our life over to God’s care.

God, our creator, loves us with unconditional love and offers us friendship on a personal basis.

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

Asking God to remove all our defects of character is giving Him permission to expose and remove those things that are hindering our ability to live life to the full.

For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.

When we become unsettled in our recovery we often find that we begin to entertain risky thoughts that make us vulnerable to relapse.

We often feel awkward about bringing our recurring sins before God.

I belong; I have worth; I am adequate and/or competent.

We often bring our “street smart” thinking into recovery with us.

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.