Recovery Meditations

Day after day, in recovery meetings and elsewhere, we pray these words: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

There may be times when we feel we will never conquer this desire within us to rebel against the God who made us and who desires that we should walk in His ways.

Two of the many reasons we excuse giving into temptation and rationalizing our behaviour are: 1) We want what sin has to offer us.

Rationalizing is a thought process where we provide a reasonable but untrue argument for harmful actions we plan to take, or have taken.

Step 2 in the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous invites us to “come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.

Water is a very simple substance. It is colorless, odorless, and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it.

If we hold something in our hand and let go of it, it will drop to the ground.

Did life as we know it today come about through a series of random collections of spontaneous acts and happenstance mutations?

Is there really a God? It's a question many people ask at various times in their lives.

God desires to have a relationship with each one of us.

How do we see ourselves? To get an accurate picture of ourselves we need to use a mirror.

To know the will of God for our lives requires spending time with Him.