Recovery Meditations

Recovery meetings have common formats from place to place and there is structure to the way things are done.

Step 10 of the 12-Step program advises us to continue to take personal inventory and, when we are wrong, promptly admit it.

Judging others is a problem area for many of us and something that Jesus tells us needs to change if we are to live well in recovery and in life.

T Often when we come into recovery we miss our old way of life and the people we socialized with.

Living in addiction is chaotic. A person is never at peace either in mind or body.

One of our first priorities in recovery is sorting our life practices according to the truth.

Employers negotiate work contracts with individuals and unions.

We feel many things in recovery. Some negative and others positive.

T Many of us are plagued throughout the day with a nagging sense of guilt.

Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful.

Powerful people harass me without cause, but my heart trembles only at your word.

Seeking out those to whom we need to make amends can be intimidating.