Meditations on ""

Being a phony is an intensely tiring way to live. Giving false impressions and lying to cover up attitudes or behaviours drains us of joy and energy.

Peace and serenity are gifts to be received. To make room for them in our hearts requires surrender on our part.

An important part of recovery is coming to an honest view of what happened in our relationships.

When problems arise it's easy to forget that God cares.

To experience success in our life with God in recovery we must make a commitment to be thorough in our search for truth and then apply each learned truth to our thoughts and behaviours.

How many of us have fallen to places in life where we never thought we would find ourselves again?

While living in addiction we were emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

We come into recovery because we recognize we are powerless over addictive substances, people, or things that we have become dependent on to sustain life as we know it.

Many of us in our life in addiction had our character shaped by isolation and getting our own way in any way that we could.

Just for today, I will take time to notice the gifts in me, in others, and in my surroundings and let the rest go.

Today as we begin to embrace this New Year and recover from the festivities of saying good-bye to the old year, let us reflect on what we would like to achieve in the months ahead.

Happy New Year! There is a line in a Christian music song which says, God has "opened up my future, closed my past.