Recovery Meditations

ACCEPTED OR REJECTED (1) There are three feelings humans must have in order to be healthy.

WHERE IN THE WORLD DO I BELONG? (3) Sometimes we feel unwanted, unloved or uncared for.

WHERE IN THE WORLD DO I BELONG? (2) How do you feel when people who should recognize you do not do so?

WHERE IN THE WORLD DO I BELONG? (1) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

EQUIPPED FOR GROWTH (3) Growing our character in our life in recovery may be a challenge.

EQUIPPED FOR GROWTH (2) God has invited us to life – the life He planned and created us to live.

EQUIPPED FOR GROWTH (1) Do we want to grow? The truth is, as long as we are breathing, we should be growing.

HOW FAR IS THE EAST FROM THE WEST? How far is the east from the west?

REMEMBERING THE BENEFITS It is easy to complain about life, but in a famous poem King David lists plenty of things for which to praise God.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2) Jesus claimed to be the Good Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD (1) Several times Jesus tried to explain to the Pharisees, the Jewish Leaders, who He was, but they were unable or unwilling to understand.

RESPONDING TO A GOOD OFFER We’ve been thinking about this story of four friends who brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing.