Meditations on "Relationship"

At various times on our recovery journey we are asked to take personal inventory.

Shame is a powerful emotion which repeatedly tells us that we are worthless, unacceptable, unforgiveable, and have no place in a loving relationship.

Often people who have no relationship with God will pray when they are in trouble or when they urgently need help in a time of great distress.

Just for today I will be unafraid, believing that as I trust in God with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, He will lead me along a good path.

We all need hope. Today we are affirming the hope we will experience when what has been impossible for us to do on our own becomes possible as we reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves.

In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there is a section on making amends and sorting things out with our families.

An important part of recovery is coming to an honest view of what happened in our relationships.

We come into recovery because we recognize we are powerless over addictive substances, people, or things that we have become dependent on to sustain life as we know it.

Many of us in our life in addiction had our character shaped by isolation and getting our own way in any way that we could.

Happy New Year! There is a line in a Christian music song which says, God has "opened up my future, closed my past.

Many of us face a new year wondering about the unknown.

After all the hype and preparation for Christmas we now get back to quieter days before the New Year celebration.