Meditations on "Recovery"

After living so long in the self-centered world of addiction, it’s not easy to come into recovery and build relationships with other human beings, particularly those who have lived in self-centered ways just like us.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Some people who have no relationship with God will still pray when they are in trouble or when they really need help in a time of great distress.

Blessed are those who live in your house. They are always praising you.

Too many of us still drive distracted by our phones and other technology.

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.

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem and that we can't solve it on our own.

As we prepare to do the steps in a recovery program, who among us enjoys doing a Step Four inventory or writing out the last 90 days of our addiction?

We read in the 12-Steps program material about turning our will and our life over to the care of God.

The Bible is full of God's promises to help us in our time of need.

Sometimes where we live and the people with whom we communicate add trouble to our lives and the lives of others by what they say or do.

I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there.