Recovery Meditations

God's trustworthy plan for us is to become whole in body, mind and spirit, regardless of how much pain and loneliness, anger and frustration, dissatisfaction and discouragement we have buried in our hearts.

When we give attention to our flawed reasoning and ignore the guidance of God, we very quickly start to fear and flee into self-protection mode.

When we reached the bottom in our addiction we knew we needed help to get ourselves out of our tangled brokenness.

Our pride often keeps us from asking to have our needs met.

A remarkable change takes place in our thinking and even our desires when we turn our will and our lives over to God’s care.

Saturday – a day to relax and unwind from the busy responsibilities of the week, to do some errands and tidy up things that may have become cluttered during the week.

To continue to live in God's power and prevent relapse in vulnerable times, we need to allow our lives to be continuously shaped by God's principles and plan for us.

As we enter into life with God in recovery, we often feel quite vulnerable.

As we seek to live in God’s will each day, we ask God to help us deal with those events in our past which our addiction helped us medicate—feelings of pain and loss, loneliness, frustration, grief and dissatisfaction.

When we finally admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our life had become empty and unmanageable, we sought a recovery program.

For it was I, the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt.

When we wandered in addiction we found ourselves trying to be loyal to our families, but our loyalty to our drug of choice often took priority.