Meditations on "Recovery"

Someone has rightly said, "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

When we first come into a recovery meeting and someone is asked to share their experience, strength, and hope with the group, we are often cynical in our thoughts about what the person is saying.

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

It’s leap year so this is a day added to the calendar every four years to keep our clocks in line with the earth’s rotation around the sun.

Why does God bother with rebellious humankind? As we read stories in the Bible of those who claim to be people of God, we notice that they are fickle.

There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time.

There is no more tiring way of life than living as a phony.

How many times have we spoken before thinking and, as the saying goes, “put our foot in our mouth?

In life there often seems to be two groups of people, those who speak well and look good and those who always seem to get things wrong.

Just for today I will try to live in conscious contact with God praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.

We lost our way. That is an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

From the chaos of our dysfunctional lives many of us called out to God with words like, “God if you are really there, please help me.