Meditations on "Recovery"

We are just a few days into the new year. We look to this coming year with renewed hope.

Some of us may have awakened this morning to the fact that our lives are unmanageable and that we are powerless over our addictive behaviour.

As we come to the end of this year, a year filled with both accomplishments and failures, it’s time to reflect on the events of the year that brought growth and joy in our journey with God in recovery.

One of our favorite Christmas songs is “The Little Drummer Boy” because, in spite of being a little guy with not very much, he really “gets it.

As we consider our future, we need to take time to reflect on where we have been and where we want to go from here.

Within each personal story of the journey from bondage to freedom is the power of the Gospel to save anyone who is lost.

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out.

Our old ways of thinking and behaving are being transformed as we journey with God in our new life in recovery.

Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Step Nine calls for direct amends except when to do so might cause further injury.

What does it mean to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings?