Meditations on "Recovery"

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.

There is a strong desire in us to succeed, to win, to excel, to be successful!

An attitude of humility allows us to accept our dependence on God and encouragement from one another.

When God wanted to give people a very simple summary of how life was meant to be lived he said this: O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.