Meditations on ""

We’ve all done things we are not proud of. Some of us feel like we’ve done more or done worse or done it for longer than others.

Most people love the prayer of St. Francis. It’s been put to music, made into wall hangings, and often prayed where people gather to seek God.

How many of us are confident in our decision making?

In Step 7 we humbly come before God and ask Him to remove all our shortcomings.

God longs for us to experience love and blessing in relationship with others.

How many of us have taken time through prayer and meditation on God’s Word to learn about God, about His ways, and about His promises to those of us who have given our will and life into His care.

One of the central pillars of the recovery world is the sharing of our experience, strength, and hope.

Trying to be self-reliant and seeking to sort out life on our own took many of us into lifestyles of isolation, addiction, denial, and destructive behaviour.

As we work our program we find that life changes. Nothing happens in an instant but when we reflect on a month, or 90 days, or a year or more and compare the person we once were with the person we are now, the transformation is striking.

Today we remember blood that was spilled on battlefields around the world by brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice.

R When we come to Step-6 of the 12-Step program, we have admitted the exact nature of our wrongs to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, and are now entirely ready to have God remove our defects of character.

Due to the oppression of our addictive lifestyle, many of us made a move towards recovery only to struggle and relapse.