Recovery Meditations

Being grateful for the people around us and the things we have, is of great value in leading a contented life in recovery.

We were created as wonderfully complex human beings.

When we come to believe that God forgives and saves us through Jesus and choose to turn our will and our life over to His care, God makes us His own.

Over the long haul, how do we prevent relapse into addictive behaviour and maintain our choice to live in the love and grace of God?

Many of us have struggled with believing our Heavenly Father would treat us compassionately.

Jesus gave us very clear instructions about loving our enemies and doing good to those who spitefully use us.

Many of us have watched movies with men or woman dueling with swords.

For all of us there came a time when we could no longer avoid the realization that our lives were a mess.

What came first the chicken or the egg? When we called out to God in our powerlessness, did we suddenly show up on His ‘locating system’ or was He already waiting and available when we called for help?

Many of us who experience discontentment with life are unable to settle ourselves and be at peace.

We all want progress in our life in recovery but what are the actual goals we want to achieve?

The end of Tradition 12 in the Big Book of AA sums up an important principle in our recovery: We need to regularly count our blessings.