Meditations on ""

At many points in our recovery journey the character defect of evasiveness may begin to surface.

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem that we cannot solve on our own.

Many of us struggle with health issues both in our bodies and in our minds.

Mercy is the act of being compassionate or kind toward someone who does not deserve it.

When we determined that we could no longer live in the insanity that was our daily life, we knew we needed to be free from the bondage of our dependency.

It is a wonderful practice to take time daily to be thankful for all that we have, and all that God has promised us.

Some of us in recovery have transitioned from knowing little or nothing about the amazing God who pursued us with His love to completely giving our will and life over to His care.

Recovery is hard work. Sometimes we feel joy in the journey and other times we don’t seem to feel anything at all.

Although we know that "half measures avail us nothing," it's also wonderful to have the promise that,“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

When we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, what were we expecting to happen?

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.

Just for today I will be unafraid, believing that as I trust in God with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, He will lead me along a good path.