Meditations on "Recovery"

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?

When we entered a recovery program we may have looked around at the program staff and wondered why on earth they would choose to help us.

God invites us to joy and peace, to forgiveness and to loving relationship.

In recovery, and in life in general, situations often arise which cause us to believe that we are alone and have no one to turn to for help.

God's kingdom runs on the law of love and peace. It really does!

As we come into recovery programs we listen to and are supported by the experience, strength, and hope that others share.