Meditations on "Recovery"

Commitment is asked of us in numerous areas throughout our lives: marriage vows, appointments, work, volunteer jobs, friendships, contracts, bill paying, promises made to parents or children, getting to work or school on time, etc.

A victim is a person who has been abused or hurt or oppressed and, was without power to change their circumstances.

I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, According to their own thoughts; A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; (Isaiah 65:2-3a NKJV) God says we have problem with rebellion.

Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name.

Jesus was asked which commandment was the greatest commandment in the law and He replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Today, as we recover from the festivities of saying good-bye to the old year and embrace the New Year, let us reflect on what we would like to achieve in the coming year.

Happy New Year! A time of new things, of new hopes and dreams.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.

Recently on the news the story was told of two women who went into a Tim Horton's, bought many doughnuts and cups of coffee and began to give them out to the next people who came in as a "random act of kindness.

The Twelve Steps program is a spiritually based program of recovery for individuals seeking healing from a variety of addictive lifestyles.

When we come into life with God in recovery, we usually focus first on behaviours.