Meditations on "Recovery"

Often when traumatic situations arise and we are trying to navigate our way through them, we wonder if God is listening to our prayers.

We all know that children need to be corrected by the wise guidance they receive from caring parents.

Audio for As we continue our life with God in recovery it is wise to acknowledge our accountability first to God, and then to another person.

All of us like to be appreciated when we feel we have acted wisely or done a good job.

Step 5 is often a tough step to complete. With great apprehension we have made a fearless moral inventory of ourselves and now we must admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Having lived for so long doing what was right in our own eyes, we may have doubts about being able to live according to God’s principles that we are learning in the Bible.

Audio for Across Canada the first Monday in August is a holiday.

In some translations of the Bible we are told we are blessed if we fear the Lord and that fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

As we sit at home watching our leaders on TV it is easy to make controversial comments about how they are running the affairs of the country or city where we live.

S Trying to be perfect is a mean task master yet many of us live in the fear of making mistakes and hide in shame and addictive behaviour when we stumble.

Depending on the situation we sometimes find ourselves caught up in the tension between our desire for justice or mercy.

One of the amazing transformations that we experience when we have spent some time in recovery from active addiction is that we learn how to become self-supporting.