Meditations on ""

God, our creator, loves us with unconditional love and offers us friendship on a personal basis.

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with self-centeredness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

Asking God to remove all our defects of character is giving Him permission to expose and remove those things that are hindering our ability to live life to the full.

For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.

When we become unsettled in our recovery we often find that we begin to entertain risky thoughts that make us vulnerable to relapse.

We often feel awkward about bringing our recurring sins before God.

I belong; I have worth; I am adequate and/or competent.

We often bring our “street smart” thinking into recovery with us.

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.

In our addictive lifestyle we made poor choices and walked paths that caused harm to ourselves and to others.

One of the lovely results of reading the Psalms over and over again is recognizing how freely the writer calls on God for all his needs.

Is there still hope for us after years of living in an addictive and destructive lifestyle?