Recovery Meditations

There is only one person who understands us through and through.

As we enter into a new life of recovery and seek to leave addictive and destructive life habits behind it’s important that we come to God who knows us, who cares for us, and who has prepared a way forward for us that is secure and satisfying.

The seasons are changing. In just a couple of days we will officially move from summer to autumn.

This past week Chinese people around the world celebrated Moon Festival.

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

“I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

God says to each of us: My child, today you are faced with many decisions and you're unsure about what to do.

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.