Meditations on "Recovery"

Elections come and go and we, the people, are always looking for leaders of our country to make decisions which will better life in our home community, in our country and the world at large.

Many of us carry unrealistic expectations into our life in recovery.

We are unable to control all our circumstances, but we don't have to let what happens spoil our day.

Great debate goes on between scientists and theologians regarding how the earth came into being.

Many of us have struggled with addictive and destructive habits for a long time.

We begin the process of changing our self-centered way of living by first turning our will and our lives over to God’s care.

To stop using our substance of choice is a great beginning to recovery but God knows that unless we deal with the underlying root of our habits and addictive practices we are still doomed for failure.

Life in addiction narrowed our focus to a self-centered view of what we wanted or thought we needed.

We live in an angry noisy world. Quiet people and their opinions and needs seem to get lost in the loud voices of protest and demand.

God’s way is simple. Like little children trust the good and caring hearts of their parents so, in our new life with God in recovery, we need to believe that God is good and act accordingly.

When we first come into recovery, we tend to focus on our past behaviour and the things we have done wrong.

When we come to new life in Christ we will seek after truth in all our affairs.