Meditations on "Recovery"

It’s easy for us to become discouraged and feel sorry for ourselves when life doesn’t go the way we think it should.

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

All of us rely on ourselves to some degree to do those things that are important for life and happiness.

We seldom have a day when we are not worried about something.

God is aware of every difficult moment we have experienced and the pain we have endured for every wrong done to us or by us.

This life we have been given, this new season that is before us, begins with each new day.

How many times did people try to help us see the truth about our problem when we were in active addiction?

Fear is a disturbing emotion which is triggered by the expectation that something unpleasant is about to happen.

While watching the evening news, we often hear about a disaster caused by someone driving while drunk or high on drugs, or learn of the next grim statistic of the opioid crisis around the world.

When we first come into recovery, we may not be aware of the importance of making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves as Step 4 of the 12-Step program requires.

Some time may have passed since we completed Step Ten and we may feel we have learned a lot and are well on our way in recovery.

It takes courage to live in recovery. It took great courage to admit that our lives were unmanageable, and we were powerless to sort ourselves out.