Meditations on "Recovery"

An important character strength to develop is tolerance – being patient, understanding, and accepting of something different.

When we have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, do we see ourselves, in comparison to others, as more worthy or less worthy of God’s forgiveness?

The Bible tells us that on the third day of creation God spoke and vegetation was created on the earth.

Some of us slid into destructive and addictive lifestyles out of a desire to have friends and companions to belong to.

Jesus always spoke the truth. He encouraged people to follow Him because He is the way, the truth, and the life.

It's summertime – time for rest and recreation and hopefully some quality time with friends and/or family.

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.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

To be responsible recovering addicts, we need to have regular contact with God and seek His wisdom and His will for our lives.

How many of us check out the soil in which we want to grow plants or vegetables?

For a variety of reasons, many of us have an underlying structure of disorders that is damaging to us and to others.

If someone were to choose 3 words to describe us, would “generous” be one of them?