Meditations on "Recovery"

God invites us to joy and peace, to forgiveness and a loving relationship.

In recovery meetings we’ve heard some people tell “war stories” that made us cringe and which may have triggered something negative in those who were listening.

“I am a walking miracle” is a slogan we often hear said in recovery meetings.

Over the long haul, how do we prevent relapse into addictive behaviour and maintain our choice to live in the love and grace of God?

Recovery is hard work. Sometimes we feel joy in the journey and other times we don’t seem to feel anything at all.

At many points in our recovery journey the character defect of evasiveness may begin to surface.

As God draws us into a deeper relationship with Himself, the devil and his forces of darkness try to make us doubt Him and the truth of His Word as recorded in the Bible.

Everyone faces unwanted hardships and trouble. Some hardship comes because we act in ways that are unwise and end up in circumstances we did not anticipate.

When we come into recovery we are usually immature in our knowledge of God and his ways and don’t really know how to live a meaningful life.

Why do we continue to do things our own way when it obviously isn’t working?

Some of us in recovery lack the quality of being hospitable.

When we give our will and life over to the care of God, we receive the new birth Jesus spoke of.