Meditations on "Recovery"

What is the challenge for us as we reflect on making a searching, fearless, and moral inventory based on God’s way of living as revealed in the Bible?

How many times in our addictive lifestyle were people looking for us, seeking to do us harm?

In the TV program “EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER” a team of designers and builders make it their project to replace the broken-down home of a well-deserving family with a brand-new home.

None of us likes to admit that anything is wrong in our life and our family.

Rembrandt and Michelangelo are just two names of famous artists whose paintings are practically priceless.

What does it mean to turn our will and our life over to the care of God?

We will begin to understand the will of God for us through reading the Bible, following good counsel from pastors, sponsors and Christian friends who have faithfully walked with God for a time.

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

If we grew up in a dysfunctional family or surrounded ourselves in our addictive lifestyle with individuals who were broken, we likely developed thought patterns that were incorrect and even harmful.

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”.