Meditations on "Powerless"

"Live and let live" is one of those slogans that encourage us to consider if our desire for control is becoming an issue we need to deal with.

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

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.

Life has its ups and downs and doesn’t always treat us fairly.

A lot of us express self-hatred as we look at our personal appearance and our life experiences.

In the Bible we read of all the good things that God will do for those who have given their will and life into His care.

While we were living in addiction our agenda each day was completely centered on meeting our daily needs.

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.

Those of us who have acted on the saying “God could and would, if He were sought” have witnessed the blessing of God in our lives.

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere this is both the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? When we called out to God in our powerlessness, did we suddenly show up on His “locating system” or was He already waiting for us to call so He could help us?

In the Bible we read of many festivals that the people of Israel celebrated because God had intervened on their behalf.