Meditations on ""

God created us to live in loving relationship with Him.

Living in addiction is living emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

How many times have we spoken before we thought, and as the old truism says, “put our foot in our mouth?

When we came into recovery we admitted that our lives were unmanageable and we needed a power greater than ourselves to restore us to sanity.

Too many of us continue to drive our vehicles while distracted by cell phones or other things that capture our attention.

God invites us to live in freedom. Freedom for us was so important to God that He was willing to give the life of His Son so that we could experience new life and peace.

A well-known sinful woman came to a place where Jesus was eating dinner with some religious leaders of His time.

“My life is of great beauty and infinite value. God has a plan for my life that is meaningful, purposeful, and joyful.

After living so long in the self-centered world of addiction, it’s not easy to come into recovery and build relationships with other human beings, particularly those who like us have lived in self-centered ways.

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.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Faith and hope in God are foundational to a positive outlook on life in recovery.