Meditations on "Powerless"

Those who make steady progress in recovery and find one day becoming one month, one year, and then one decade, are those who remain focused and give careful attention each day to what works.

Each day in recovery is another opportunity to learn and grow.

Some of us have had the experience of being homeless while we lived in our dysfunctional lifestyle.

We lost our way. That's an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

God won’t stop us from making bad choices. His desire for us to experience true life and love is a choice He gives us.

No matter how far away God seems, we can always call out to Him and He will always respond.

We came into recovery because we knew life wasn’t working.

One of the coping mechanisms many of us use when dealing with low-self-esteem and the humiliation of our past failures is the mask of arrogance.

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem and that we can't solve it on our own.

Recovery begins when we come to our senses and affirm that we are powerless over alcohol or some other substance or habit and that our lives have become unmanageable.

In the middle of the Bible, just after Psalms, we find the book of Proverbs which contains all sorts of practical wisdom about everyday living.

A common recovery saying is that “you must give it away in order to keep it”.