Meditations on "Recovery"

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.

Step-10 encourages us to regularly take personal inventory and when we are wrong about anything to promptly admit it.

In many places in the Bible we read that God’s love endures forever.

How many of us got ourselves into trouble by our lack of wisdom and understanding of life and where it would lead us if we pursued a rebellious course?