Meditations on "Recovery"

With the 24-hour news cycle on our televisions and on our digital devices we are exposed daily to traumatic events around the world.

Moving forward in identifying character defects and allowing God to help us develop our true character is no easy process.

A lot of destructive and addictive behaviours are based in the poverty mentality that results from our needs not being met.

Most of us have gone through the process of admitting to God, to ourselves, and to someone else where we have failed and caused harm.

Living in addiction is living emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

Many of us have been in the company of others who think they know everything but when they open their mouths very little wisdom is detected.

How many times have we spoken before we thought and, as the saying goes, “put our foot in our mouth?

Have you ever been in a room when snow started to fall outside and the atmosphere in the room changed as children got excited about playing in the snow?

“My life is of great beauty and infinite value. God has a plan for my life that is meaningful, purposeful, and joyful.

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.