Recovery Meditations

Part of the sickness we can observe in our culture is the need to be good, or to seem innocent where guilt should be admitted.

As we grow in life, understanding what it means to be good and do good gets more and more complicated and vague.

God created us in His image and God is good. However, we also have the potential for the opposite because we have choice for good or evil.

What are we doing from day to day, even moment to moment, to train ourselves to hear and respond to the voice of God?

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

In the Bible we read the story of how God took care of a poor widow who was running out of food (1 Kings 17).

Yesterday we told the story of two vulnerable people found in the Bible in 1 Kings 17 (Link for whole story in the Bible at: http://www.

For the next few days we’ll look at the story of Elijah as he meets with a widow in Zarephath.

When Jesus encountered a tax collector named Zacchaeus, his life and the lives of all those he'd previously dealt with, were changed forever.

Jesus' friend John tells us a lovely story of a rebuilt relationship.

It would be impossible for us to risk taking the first step in making amends with others had God not demonstrated the way for us.

How many times have we written people off because of some dispute in the distant past?