Recovery Meditations

This week we've been studying how to deal with sadness and depression so we can be real about our feelings and willing to seek God’s help in each situation.

We are unable to control all our circumstances, but we don't have to let what happens spoil our day.

When we live in depression our number-one enemy is our emotions.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains.

Great debate goes on between scientists and theologians regarding how the earth came into being.

Many of us have struggled with addictive and destructive habits for a long time.

The quest for peace in our souls begins at birth. As babies, we long for our mother’s comforting arms, as children we yearn for happy experiences, and as adults we strive to find success and fulfillment through relationships and jobs.

We begin the process of changing our self-centered way of living by first turning our will and our lives over to God’s care.

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.

To stop using our substance of choice is a great beginning to recovery but God knows that unless we deal with the underlying root of our habits and addictive practices we are still doomed for failure.

Life in addiction narrowed our focus to a self-centered view of what we wanted or thought we needed.