Recovery Meditations

Transition is difficult. It requires that we leave something behind and move into something new.

Now that we are seeking to act with honesty in all our affairs, it's discouraging to face obstacles in our path while we see others lying and manipulating and getting what they want without the hassle we are experiencing.

As we plan a time and place to draw near to God and bring our inventory of character defects before Him, we can ask God to do what is necessary in us so that they can be removed.

The saying "Straighten Up and Fly Right" has been around since Nat King Cole wrote and recorded a song with this title many years ago.

How many of us ended up in an unmanageable lifestyle because we refused to follow the guidance given to us by caregivers, friends, and others?

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with selfishness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

E A popular song that's been sung in churches around the world the last few years includes the lines, "Way-Maker, Miracle-Worker, Promise-Keeper, Light-in-my-Darkness, My God, that is who You are.

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

With reference to the armour worn by soldiers in Jesus' time His followers were encouraged to put on a "breastplate of righteousness" as part of what would protect them spiritually each day.

The exact nature of our wrongs is rooted in the lie that our problems are caused by what is around us rather than what is within us.

An important character strength to develop is tolerance – being patient, understanding, and accepting of something different.

When we have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, do we see ourselves, in comparison to others, as more worthy or less worthy of God’s forgiveness?