Meditations on "Powerless"

When we came to acknowledge that, on our own we were powerless over our addictive lifestyle, we sought help from those people who were known in the community to assist individuals like us in finding freedom from addiction.

In recovery, and in life in general, situations often arise which cause us to believe that we are alone and have no one to turn to for help.

Thinking and acting on our own self-centered thoughts often results in confusion and grief.

Life in recovery has many vulnerable moments, especially in the early days.

“Principles before personalities” is one of those sayings we hear at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Canada is a nation founded on principles that honour the God who created us.

Audio for FIRST THINGS FIRST One of our first priorities in recovery is sorting our life practices according to the truth.

When we lived in the chaos of our addictive lifestyle we were ruled by the obsession for our drug of choice or our dependency of the day.

A person with a victim mentality has learned to focus on suffering while trying to avoid more at any cost.

We have all sorts of reasons why we think we can’t change.

If we obsess on negative words that others have said it affects us and may contribute to relapse.

When we admit to our helpless state and surrender ourselves to the care of God, we will be born again into a new life.