Recovery Meditations

Doughnuts have dough and holes when they are first cut from dough but they don’t look good or taste good until they’ve been fried in hot oil or baked in a hot oven.

Of the three important things we need in order to have a positive outlook on life, love is the greatest.

What gives a person in recovery a positive outlook on life?

This week we are exploring a way of life that “sees the doughnut rather than the hole.

What do you see when you go to Tim Horton’s or some other coffee shop?

A Commitment is asked of us in numerous areas throughout our lives: marriage vows, appointments, work, volunteer jobs, friendships, contracts, bill paying, promises made to parents or children, getting to work or school on time, etc.

Our new life in recovery challenges our old habit of doing whatever we want, whenever we feel like doing it.

People living with a victim mentality often believe that it is impossible to get well.

Jesus encountered a man who had been sick a long time.

People with a victim mentality often confuse love with pity or rescue.

A person with a victim mentality has learned to focus on suffering while trying to avoid more at any cost.

A victim is a person who has been abused, hurt, or oppressed, and is without the needed knowledge or power to change their circumstances.