Meditations on "Recovery"

Although we know that "half measures avail us nothing," it's also wonderful to have the promise that, "If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

When we come into recovery we are usually worn and broken and feel wretched, but often we still remain prideful in the way we talk.

When we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, what did we understand about that Power?

A lot of us express self-hatred in the way we look at ourselves and our life experiences.

All of humankind’s sin – from the beginning of time to the end of time – was laid on Jesus and not even the weight of that could hold him down.

We've all experienced the power of words in our own lives and observed the effect of their power in what others share with us.

We often give up on God before His plan, in His perfect timing, takes effect.

To be reconciled with someone who has wronged us is difficult.

When we observe someone in need of help what is our first reaction?

Coming to terms with our lifestyle in addiction requires us to admit that we have zero self-control where our dependencies are involved.

Many of the events in our lives that contributed to us becoming dependent on substances or unhealthy relationships were traumatic and caused us to retreat into hiding.

The day we call Palm Sunday was foretold in the Jewish scriptures hundreds of years before it happened.