Meditations on "Recovery"

Being grateful for the people around us and the things we have is of great value in leading a contented life in recovery.

How can we remain at peace in a world full of troublesome circumstances?

None of us like criticism but all of us should take time to hear what is being said and deal with it.

Too often dealing with denial is incorrectly focused on the circumstances surrounding the use of our substance of choice or other destructive habits for which we are now seeking treatment and God’s help to overcome.

God made us for relationship with Him and with each other.

Many who struggle with addictive behaviours are not happy because their lives are unfulfilled, and they are not achieving what they really want in life.

As we begin to follow God’s principles in all affairs, we may have questions about the future and how God is going to work everything together for our good and His glory.

God hates violence and His heart is grieved by the things that humans do to one another.

The following words were written thousands of years ago and yet they are an accurate description of many of us before we came into recovery.

One of the things which many of us experienced while growing up, and which probably had something to do with our journey into an addictive and destructive lifestyle, was the lack of attention paid to us as children.

For all of us there came a time when we could no longer avoid the realization that our lives were a mess.

Addicts tell lies. We tell ourselves we need our substance of choice in order to deal with the day.