Recovery Meditations

It's Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Families gather, food is prepared and football is watched on many televisions.

Step Three: We turned our will and our life over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Step Two: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step One: We ADMITTED that we were powerless over our dependencies, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Once a year in Vancouver in the two weeks leading up to Labour Day we have the PNE.

At Partners in Hope gatherings we love to sing. We sing at 12-Step meetings, outreach breakfasts, training meetings….

The Twelve Steps program is a spiritually based program of recovery for individuals seeking healing from a variety of addictive lifestyles.

When we come into life with God in recovery, we usually focus first on behaviours.

There is no such thing as a casual Christian because there's no low-commitment version of being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Recently at Hallowe'en parties and around town on the streets we saw all kinds of masks.

We’ve just come through another Hallowe’en day.

As we consider and remember service men and women who sought to help their fellows in times of war and trouble, I'm reminded of Psalm 56.