Meditations on ""

When we turn our will and our life over to God’s care and trust in the new life Jesus gives us, does that mean we should never reflect on guilty feelings?

The Bible makes it clear that God detests lying. Most of the time we did not speak the truth.

Before we were willing to admit that we were powerless over our dependencies and our lives were unmanageable, there may have been a time when we really wanted to do good but were unable to do so.

"Live and let live" is one of those slogans that encourages us to consider if our desire for control is becoming an issue we need to deal with.

Often, when we come into recovery, we have no sense of why our life problems took us down the road of addiction.

Many of us got caught up in addiction because of our inability to deal with the pain and harm inflicted on us by those who did not treat us as they should have.

For most of us compiling a list of people we have harmed and becoming willing to make amends to them is extremely intimidating.

There are many things about God to love but one of the most amazing is that even when we are running around in addiction and find ourselves in chaotic, life-threatening situations, if we call out to Him, God will help us.

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path .

After years of listening to other’s harsh and condemning words about us, it’s wonderful to have an opportunity to experience the affirmation of God and to be reminded that as we walk with Him, He is pleased with us.

When we have spent some time in recovery from active addiction, one of the amazing transformations we experience is that we have learned to become more self-supporting.

The encouragement to “grow-up” and do things for ourselves is evident from the time we are born.