Meditations on "Recovery"

God never intended that we would know evil, let alone experience it.

When we notice the shortcomings in our character, do we immediately have a sense of remorse or are we more likely to try to justify them?

It’s important to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God in all our affairs.

We are not shaped so much by our environment as we are by our perception of our environment.

One of our greatest spiritual dangers in recovery is “stinking thinking”.

O God, insolent people rise up against me; a violent gang is trying to kill me.

As we have experienced healing and transformation through daily living in the love and grace of God, we need to share our story – our experience, strength, and hope – with others.

Who can we trust? Who's reliable? Who tells the truth?

We begin the process of changing our selfish way of living by turning our will and our life over to God’s care.

God, our creator, loves us with unconditional love and offers us friendship on a personal basis.

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with self-centeredness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

Asking God to remove all our defects of character is giving Him permission to expose and remove those things that are hindering our ability to live life to the full.