Meditations on "Recovery"

At some point in our lives we became aware that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our lives had become unmanageable.

How many times in a day do we struggle with the character defect of impatience?

When we turn our will and our life over to God’s care and trust in the new life Jesus gives us, does that mean we should never reflect on guilty feelings again?

Peace and serenity are gifts to be received. They are treasures to be chosen.

Contentment in life does not come from trying to control someone so they will meet our needs, or by trying to please someone so they will like us and make us feel secure.

When problems arise it's easy to forget that God cares.

To experience success in our life with God in recovery we must make a commitment to be thorough in our search for truth and how we apply this learned truth in our thoughts and behaviours.

We come into recovery because we recognize we are powerless over addictive substances, people, or things that we've become dependent on to sustain life as we know it.

Many of us had our character shaped in addiction by isolation and getting our own way in whatever way we could.

Today as we recover from the festivities of saying good-bye to the old year, and embrace the New Year, let us reflect on what we would like to achieve in the coming months.

Happy New Year! There is a line in a Christian music song which says, God has "opened up my future, closed my past.

As we come to the end of this year, a year filled with both accomplishments and failures, it may be a time to reflect on events that brought both joy and growth in our journey with God in recovery.