Meditations on "Recovery"

All the promises of God are for us who have given our will and life over to the care of God.

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

How many of us have lashed out in anger against a person who has harmed us?

Why do we look at another’s sin and want them punished for what they have done and then look at our own sin and want compassion and forgiveness?

We are not used to waiting for anything and most of us dislike it.

Disgust is a reaction that arises when a person’s good taste or moral sense is offended.

In Step Eleven, through prayer and meditation, we seek to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry it out.

Many of us struggle to recognize the difference between asking and demanding.

In many Psalms from the Bible, we are invited to “Praise the Lord.

When we see those with evil plans prosper, we often wonder why God would allow them to do so.

When we look back at our lives, we see that the road that took us down the path to addiction was strewn with flawed thinking and self-deception.

On pages 83-84 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous we read twelve promises that will happen as we diligently work the twelve steps.