Recovery Meditations

We all know that staying sober starts with not picking up a drink or our drug of choice, or returning to whatever our destructive habit was.

As kids many of us sang an action song with the words, “The head bone connected to the neck bone, the neck bone connected to the shoulder bone” and on and on down the bones to the toes.

Meditating on God’s word in the Bible and prayer to our Heavenly Father are positive daily habits that help us rebuild our lives.

Stress comes with daily living. Problems show up without notice.

We are fast approaching the annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, the One God sent to save us and give us peace.

Forgiveness happens when a person willingly forgives the wrongs that have been committed against them by another.

Many of us choose to rely on our own understanding of how life works and what is best for us.

The twelfth promise of AA reads: “We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

I wonder what people said on the day that we were born.

Many people who choose for life with God in recovery think they can live any way they want as long as they attend meetings, complete an honest set of steps, pray on occasion, and don't pick up.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

This is the first Sunday of Advent. The word Advent means “Coming” and Advent is a season of the church year when many Christians observe a time of preparing for both the celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming.