Recovery Meditations

Jesus was passing by with His disciples when he saw a man who was blind from birth.

How do you view a person who has been born with some type of infirmity such as blindness, deafness, dumbness, spina bifida, or any other type of disorder or disease of the body?

God’s kingdom has nothing to do with eating or drinking.

Where’s your “happy place?” Recently, when I typed those words into an image search on Google I came up with pictures of: young hands holding older wrinkled hands; a wedding celebration; friends jumping for joy in the outdoors; a young child looking peacefully on a baby – I assume a younger brother or sister; someone resting in a hammock; a picture of a sky with a rainbow; beautiful blue beach; a lovely cup of coffee.

Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

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?