Meditations on "Recovery"

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.

If asked, how many people we encounter daily would say we have the quality of being agreeable?

We live in a beautiful world created by God. Because God desired a people for relationship with Himself, He made humans in His own image.

The second promise found in the Big Book of AA tells us that if we continually work the steps, “We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

One of the things many of us missed while growing up was tenderness in our homes.

Will you be my Valentine? This day is meant to remind us of love and of hearts joined together in intimate friendship and commitment.

"Easy Does It" is one of the most well-known slogans in recovery circles.

One of the coping mechanisms many of us use when dealing with low self-esteem and the humiliation of our past failures is the mask of arrogance.

When we reflect on our destructive and addictive lifestyle we begin to recognize the extent of the dumb choices we have made.

Life has its ups and downs and doesn’t always treat us fairly.