Meditations on "Recovery"

Someone has rightly said, "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

To cope with living an addictive lifestyle we often repressed our moral thinking and denied the downward trend we were on.

When we first come into a recovery meeting and someone is asked to share their experience, strength, and hope with the group, we are often skeptical in our thoughts about what the person is saying.

Why does God bother with rebellious humankind? As we read stories in the Bible, we notice that the people of God are fickle.

We lost our way. That is an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

Shame is a powerful emotion that repeatedly tells us we are worthless, unacceptable, unforgiveable, and have no place in a loving relationship.

How many times have we spoken before we thought and, as the saying goes, “put our foot in our mouth?

To become willing to follow God's ways every day is a challenge for us who are used to running our own lives.

Healing is a process of restoring to health something that has been injured in some way.

From the chaos of our dysfunctional lives many of us called out to God with words like, “God if you are really there, please help me.

When making an inventory of our lives before God, some basic questions to ask are: "God what does my life look like to you?

One of the keys to a successful, stable recovery is practicing gratitude.