Meditations on "Faith"

Avoiding reality will hinder us from having the meaningful, purposeful life that we desire.

God’s Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. Galatians 5:22-23a CEV

The new life in recovery to which God invites us, is one of gentleness and speaking the truth in love to those around us.

God’s unfailing love throughout our recovery is powerful enough to sustain us and help us overcome evil.

Today is a day to honour Fathers. Some of us are Fathers. All of us have a Father. The relationship of a loving Father to his child is a picture of God's heart for us.

As we spend time with God each day and practice His teachings, He gives us a discerning heart to know His ways.

To be effective in our new life in recovery, we need to choose to follow God’s ways. We need to find new sources of interest and a new set of skills to help us stay clean and sober.

We need not be troubled or allow doubts to sink us. Jesus is always with us, ready to reach out and help us.

Our focus on day-to-day living has to be God’s agenda and giving Him opportunity to work that out in our lives.

A saying we often hear is, “What goes around comes around.” God’s word brings a positive truth to this saying. His promise is that as we bless others we can expect God to bless us.

In order to move from a lifestyle of surviving to one of thriving we must empty ourselves of all that keeps us from living totally dependent on God.

Whatever the goal, the way to success is to plan how we will work to achieve it.