Meditations on "Recovery"

Judging others is a problem area for many of us in recovery and something that Jesus tells us needs to change if we are to live well.

We need spiritual detoxing in order to stay clean and sober.

God wants us to have a life that is good, pleasing and perfect, and in the Bible, He teaches us what that life looks like.

In sobriety, we become aware of how much spiritual poison we’ve allowed to build up in our hearts and minds.

Saint Augustine, a wise and famous early church leader stated, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

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.

There's nothing more refreshing than a walk in the evening with a fresh breeze.

Everywhere we go we find doors -- apartment doors, elevator doors, bus or car doors.

We are faced with choices every day as we journey forward in recovery.

Almost everyone says they hate gossip and yet many of us are easily drawn into conversations that are unkind.

Gossip shows up in our lives in many forms. God hates them all because He knows how harmful destructive words are to our dignity and our relationships.

The practice of gossip is extremely destructive to our growth in living with God in recovery.