Recovery Meditations

Early, if not the first on the list of qualities we need to build in our new life with God in recovery, is optimism grounded in faith – faith that trusts in God, learns from God, and builds on the promises that God gives in the Bible.

In our addiction, long periods of isolation became a way of life for us.

It's easy for us to become discouraged and feel sorry for ourselves when life doesn’t go the way we think it should.

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing.

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

To some degree all of us rely on ourselves to do those things that are important for life and happiness.

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

None of us will get through life without suffering.

Some time may have passed since we completed Step Ten, and we may be confident that we have learned a lot in our recovery.

One day Jesus and His friends faced a huge problem.

One of the Twelve Promises of AA tells us: We will comprehend the word serenity, and we will know peace.