Recovery Meditations

What is loyalty? Someone who is loyal is dependable and will do what they have committed to do.

In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there is a section on making amends and sorting things out with our families.

From the chaos of our dysfunctional lives many of us called out to God with words like, “God if you are really there, please help me”.

Someone has rightly said, "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

How many times in a day do we struggle with the character defect of impatience?

There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time.

A person with hope looks forward with reasonable confidence to something that will take place.

Being a phony is an intensely tiring way to live. Giving false impressions and lying to cover up attitudes or behaviours drains us of joy and energy.

Peace and serenity are gifts to be received. To make room for them in our hearts requires surrender on our part.

An important part of recovery is coming to an honest view of what happened in our relationships.

When problems arise it's easy to forget that God cares.

To experience success in our life with God in recovery we must make a commitment to be thorough in our search for truth and then apply each learned truth to our thoughts and behaviours.