Meditations on "Recovery"

In our addiction, long periods of isolation became a way of life for us.

Many of us thought we would never sink so low in our destructive lifestyle and yet we ended up there by our own choosing.

Each day in recovery is a new opportunity to respond to God's call to live in humility, desire reconciliation in relationships, walk in forgiveness and focus on cleaning my side of the street.

Early, if not first, on the list of qualities we need to build in our new life with God in recovery is optimism grounded in faith – faith that trusts in God, learns from God, and builds on the promises that God gives in the Bible.

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing. We have lived and relied on our own understanding for years and now it has become a way of life that we find no fault with.

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

"Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" This is the signal used around the world when an airplane or boat is in trouble - usually big trouble.

None of us will get through life without suffering.

The Bible tells us that on the third day of creation God spoke and vegetation was created on the earth.

We will come to experience a secure and happy life in recovery as we learn to be grateful and appreciate the smallest blessing of each day.

Some of us in recovery have transitioned from knowing little or nothing about the amazing God who pursued us with His love to completely giving our will and our life over to His care.