Recovery Meditations

When's the last time you thought a negative angry thought?

For a few days we've been looking at some of the claims of Jesus Christ -- that He was the Son of God, lived a sinless life, would die and rise again, and would go back to heaven to be with His Father.

Later Jesus said to them again, “I am going away.

As part of my work I've spent many hours in court rooms listening to testimony and the judgments/ decisions that judges pronounce based on the facts they've heard in a particular case.

As part of energy conservation we are being introduced to new light bulbs for our homes.

What do we do when we look at our lives and discover that we've fallen short, that we've failed to live up to our own ideals?

Relationship difficulties have often cut away at our hearts from the time we were very young.

King David lied, cheated, committed adultery and murder.

To have God remove all our defects of character is to specifically ask Him to take away everything that hinders our ability to live fully in His love.

Many problems simply cannot go away until we become willing to let go of the thinking and believing that ties us to them.

We can solve personal problems only by becoming willing to change something about ourselves.

Which is easier? To stop drinking and drugging, overspending and gossiping, or to enter into a new life of caring and responsibility taking, giving back to family and community, being a person fully alive as I was created to be?