Meditations on "Recovery"

Jesus came to earth to die in our place. Jesus knows the way to please our Heavenly Father and He knows the way humans displease Him.

For all of us stress comes from many areas of life.

In Step 2 of the 12-Step program we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

When we sober up and come into recovery, most of us quickly recognize that we have an anger problem.

In Step-7 we come to God and humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.

When Jesus was teaching His friends about prayer He said this: Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for.

Living life with God in recovery is a learning process.

Yesterday, men and women who lost their lives in past wars were honoured with parades to the cenotaph in local communities.

Today we remember blood that was spilled on battlefields around the world by brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice.

We are all looking for a peaceful life and God's word has a lot to say about how living well under authority with proper respect for leaders brings that to us.

Why do we look at another’s sin and want them punished for what they have done and then look at our own sin and want compassion and forgiveness?

There is a desire in each one of us to succeed, to win, to excel, yet often when we have been asked to do something, we allow thoughts of failure to overcome us before we even start.