Recovery Meditations

Living a life of goodness, peace, and joy reflects the Kingdom of God within us.

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.

When we give our will and life over to the care of God we come out of darkness into His light.

One of the things which many of us experienced while growing up, and which probably had something to do with our journey into an addictive and destructive lifestyle, was the lack of attention paid to us as children.

When we think of healing we often look to physical healings recorded in the Bible.

Turning our will and life over to the care of God as we understand Him is just the beginning of our new life with God in recovery.

When the disciples of Jesus asked him to teach them how to pray, it is significant that Jesus’ teaching included asking forgiveness for their sin based on how they forgave others who had sinned against them.

Jesus was often challenged by the self-righteous actions of some of the religious leaders who saw themselves as guardians of God’s law.

God longs for us to experience love and blessing in relationship with others.

How can a person become complete in God lacking nothing?

When we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, what did we understand about that Power?

In our addiction the substance or habit we used to help us numb the fear and shame we were feeling, became our hiding place.