Meditations on "Recovery"

As we work our program we find that life changes. Nothing happens in an instant but when we reflect on a month, or 90 days, or a year or more and compare the person we once were with the person we are now, the transformation is striking.

Today we remember blood that was spilled on battlefields around the world by brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice.

R When we come to Step-6 of the 12-Step program, we have admitted the exact nature of our wrongs to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, and are now entirely ready to have God remove our defects of character.

Due to the oppression of our addictive lifestyle, many of us made a move towards recovery only to struggle and relapse.

We know that God watches over all the earth and sees the wickedness that causes His anger to burn against those who inflict pain and injustice on others.

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and as we moved along in our life in recovery many of us came to that place where we made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God.

In the recovery process, do we ever stop to consider what the deepest longing of our heart is?

Many of us have never been disciplined in the art of following through on the commitments we make.

Growing and being renewed day by day is part of our physical, emotional, and spiritual life.

K Tonight many children put on costumes and go door-to-door “trick-or-treating.

When we come to Step 4 in the 12-Step program we are asked to focus on ourselves and make a searching and fearless moral inventory.

The following words were written by King David after he had allowed his lust for a woman to lead him down the path of sexual immorality and murder.