Meditations on "Powerless"

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

As we prepare our hearts for the celebration of Christ’s birth, some of us may have negative memories and regrets about past Christmases.

This is the first Sunday of Advent. The word Advent means “Coming” and Advent is a season of the church year when many Christians observe a time of preparing for both the celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming.

One day when Jesus was at a dinner party given by a religious leader an uninvited woman with a bad reputation in the community entered the room.

Trying to be self-reliant and seeking to sort out life on our own took many of us into lifestyles of isolation, addiction, denial, and destructive behaviour.

Jesus is our role model for how to live well with God in recovery.

After years of uncertainty and upheaval at every turn, it's wonderful to recover a life that has some stability.

“Where is life going from here?” This a question we may ask ourselves when we come to admit that we are powerless over our dependencies and that our life has become unmanageable.

All of us who have weathered the storms of an addictive lifestyle know that our days were filled with trials of one sort or another.

Transition is difficult for us when we first come into recovery.

Denial is described as a refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation.

The night before Jesus died on the cross, He shared a meal with his friends including one of His closest companions, Peter.