Recovery Meditations

Look on my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.

On our own, our circumstances are overwhelming. Our desires are bent towards self-centeredness and we act in ways that harm people around us.

What happens when some of our usual identification points are marred by events which were totally out of our control or by choices we have made?

In the past, many of us primarily identified ourselves by the names people called us or by the labels they put on us.

The Bible tells us that when God's Spirit lives in us, our lives will demonstrate it by qualities such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Everyone wants a happy life. In the past some of us tried to achieve a good life by taking what seem to be faster or easier shortcuts.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

I pray with all my heart; answer me, Lord! I will obey your decrees.

Too many of us carry a harsh picture of God and believe He looks for ways to be displeased with us.

To give our will and our lives over to the care of God requires that we develop a whole new way of thinking and believing.

Life is a gift. Our new life in recovery is not something we earn but something we are given.

Many of us who have experienced destructive lives in addiction have known the experience of being an “outsider”, of not really belonging, of feeling distanced or detached.