Meditations on "Recovery"

Everyday life has it challenges but each day is also filled with many simple pleasures.

In Tradition 6 of AA we are given guidelines lest “problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

In many Psalms from the Bible, we are invited to “Praise the Lord.

At most recovery meetings there are lots of handshakes and hugs and "chips" or "fobs" to honour clean time.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

When the first humans disobeyed God, they alienated themselves from God and were no longer complete as God intended.

The end of Tradition 12 in the Big Book of AA sums up an important principle in our recovery: We need to regularly count our blessings.

Living in recovery and following the Twelve Steps is a spiritual journey.

Low self-esteem is a negative sense of one's worth or ability to cope or do well in life.

Those who make steady progress in recovery are those who remain focused and give careful attention each day to what works.

Just for today I will be unafraid, believing that as I trust in God with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, He will lead me along a good path.

In the Bible we read about the children of Israel being released from slavery by the purpose and plan of God.