Meditations on "Recovery"

Why do we make prayer, meditation, and seeking God’s will a part of our recovery program?

Step Nine: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Eight – We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to all.

Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

STEP 5 – We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Amazing Grace is a well know hymn which was composed by John Newton a former slave trader.

Step Four, is a positive step because it asks us to identify those things that fall short of what God says a person needs in order to have a satisfying life.

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Three: We turned our will and our life over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Some of us may wonder if we can ever have "the good life".

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.