Meditations on "Recovery"

While living in addiction we were emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

In our addiction, many of us had our character shaped through isolation and getting our own way in whatever way we could.

How many of us have fallen to places in life where we never thought we would find ourselves?

I will take time to notice the gifts in me, in others, and in my surroundings and let the rest go.

In just a few hours the new calendar year will be upon us.

Within each personal story of the journey from bondage to freedom is the power of the Gospel to save those who are lost.

I wonder what people said on the day that we were born.

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere this is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

We are fast approaching the annual celebration of the birth of Jesus, the one God sent to save us and give us new life.

E About eight hundred years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God foretold His birth through the prophet Isaiah.

S As the Twelve Traditions are read at the meetings we attend, we join the reader on the final phrase with the words, “principles before personalities.

The Christmas season is one that can be filled with wonder.