Recovery Meditations

Jesus said that He laid down His life for the sheep and that His Father loves Him for doing so.

Jesus, speaking as the Good Shepherd, said that His sheep knew Him and He knew His sheep.

Sometimes the people whom Jesus spoke to did not comprehend what he was saying even though he used everyday illustrations to help them understand who He was and where He came from.

On a regular basis, when you climb into bed at night, do you sleep soundly or do you count sheep?

Pride is a very destructive sin. It enables us to believe that if we put ourselves in charge of knowing and sorting out our lives, we will be just fine.

The Lord is good and does what is right; he shows the proper path to those who go astray.

One of the hardest things for broken people is to be humble enough to receive love, and receive love, and receive love again until our hearts are filled and healed.

When we approach God with a desire for our shortcomings to be removed, we come asking God to apply His unconditional love to our fears, to the gaps in our heart, to the pain in our memories.

In Twelve Step programs, the seventh step invites us to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.

After his final encounter with the Pharisees the man who had received his sight was thrown out of the synagogue for testifying about Jesus and questioning the Jewish leaders about their judgment of Him.

When the blind man was questioned by the Pharisees as to how Jesus healed him he told them, but that did not satisfy them.

Jesus healed a blind man and one would assume that he, his parents and friends must have greatly rejoiced that he received his sight.