Meditations on "Recovery"

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem that we cannot solve on our own.

Mercy is the act of being compassionate or kind toward someone who does not deserve it.

When we determined that we could no longer live in the insanity that was our daily life, we knew we needed to be free from the bondage of our dependency.

Some of us in recovery have transitioned from knowing little or nothing about the amazing God who pursued us with His love to completely giving our will and life over to His care.

Recovery is hard work. Sometimes we feel joy in the journey and other times we don’t seem to feel anything at all.

When we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, what were we expecting to happen?

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.

The process of recovery is a time to find peace while also accepting life as it is.

When troubles show up in our lives, we are right to call out quickly to God and trust that He will hear us and will help us.

In the Bible Jesus told a story of three servants who were given various amounts of money to use or invest on behalf of their master.

“I am a walking miracle” is a slogan we often hear said in recovery meetings.

When we come into recovery, we are usually immature in our knowledge of God and his ways and have little recall of what it is like to live a meaningful life.