Meditations on "Recovery"

Good eyesight is a great gift. With our eyes we see and admire the beauty that God has put in our natural environment.

One sure sign of growth in our life with God in recovery is making time to serve others and being willing to adjust our schedule or priorities when someone comes to us with a need.

Emotions, stress, illness, troubles in a relationship, or just talking about the past can trigger an obsession in us to relapse.

When we are being taught something new, we often feel overwhelmed by the process we must follow.

Who wants trouble? None of us do and if we listen to God’s counsel there is a lot of trouble that we can avoid.

Across the planet there are discussions about how to protect old growth forests.

Some time may have passed since we completed a Step Ten of the 12-Step program and we may now assume we have it all figured out and are well on our way in recovery.

Early, if not the 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.

It's easy for us to become discouraged and feel sorry for ourselves when life doesn’t go the way we think it should.

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing.

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

To some degree all of us rely on ourselves to do those things that are important for life and happiness.