Meditations on "Recovery"

Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.

When we lived in the chaos of our addictive lifestyle we were ruled by the obsession or dependency of the day.

When we commence the recovery process we are often lacking the courage to do even the routine daily things that need to be attended to.

When we began our recovery program, some of us had already been praying for help from a God we did not know.

Water is a very simple substance. It is colorless, odorless, and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it.

If we hold something in our hand and let go of it, it will drop to the ground.

Is there really a God? Is there really a higher power to which turning over my life and my will actually gives me recovery and a life worth living?

One of the things many of us missed while growing up, and which probably had something to do with our journey into addictive and destructive lifestyles, was tenderness.

How many of us have taken what we thought was a shortcut to a destination and instead ended up lost?

As we choose for recovery from our former dependencies, we hear talk about God.

Often when we start to live sober in recovery we feel overwhelmed by past life events.

Step 5 – admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.