Meditations on "Recovery"

Step 10 of the 12-Step program encourages us to stay on track in our recovery with the following words: “We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Many of us want to have healthy bodies and therefore are careful about what we are eating and drinking.

Many of us, prior to seeking help, lived in an unmanageable lifestyle and had never taken the time to familiarize ourselves with the 12-Step program.

Today in North America we honour and give thanks for the collective labour-force of our nation which includes people from our families and those in our communities.

When we have completed the twelve steps of our recovery program, we are just at the beginning of our new way of life.

Making amends requires a will to do so. Some of us struggle to be sorry for our actions towards others or are more offended by what another person did to cause our reaction.

“We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Often when we begin our new life with God in recovery, we get discouraged because we feel we are unable to control the urges of our old nature.

Those of us who are recovering from the mess of our lives know there is a hunger and thirst within us for something more than what life has offered us so far.

There are seasons in each of our lives which are fruitful and others which are not.

Sometimes we choose not to bless someone because we judge them as unworthy.

The contrast of destructive self-centeredness in active addiction with the healthy lifestyle of supporting one another in recovery is clearly expressed in Promise 7 of AA: We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.