Meditations on "Powerless"

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

Two days before Christmas and it seems like it's crowded and busy everywhere.

…The Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child!

Each Sunday we normally reflect on a Psalm, which is a poem from God's word.

Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once.

Those of us who are recovering from the mess of our lives know there is a hunger and thirst within us for something more than what life has offered us so far.

When many of us waken up from the haze of our addiction and reflect on the harm we have caused in our relationships, or when we begin to make an inventory of our character defects, a well of deep sorrow may overwhelm us.

To be flexible means that we are adaptable and willing to yield when circumstances require short or long-term change.

As we remember service men and women who served our nation in times of war and trouble, it's good also to be mindful of words from the Bible that describe God's help in our time of need.

Jesus told a story of a man who was hiring day laborers.

The following words were written thousands of years ago and yet they are an accurate description of many of us before we came into recovery.

For all of us there came a time when we could no longer avoid the realization that our lives were a mess.