Meditations on "Recovery"

To be responsible recovering addicts, we need to have regular contact with God and seek His wisdom and His will for our lives.

When we first come into recovery many of us are intimidated by the thought of speaking to God in prayer.

To be suspicious can be good or bad depending on the circumstances.

The 12-Step road often seems a long and winding one to us and some of us think we can reach the same destination by taking shortcuts that are more agreeable.

When we say in Step 12 that we have had a spiritual wakening, we are describing the impact we have experienced as we’ve completed the first eleven steps.

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.