Meditations on "Relationship"

Living life with God in recovery is a learning process.

Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself to relax and enjoy all that God is giving me.

Today is a day to honour fathers. Some of us are fathers.

Emotions, stress, illness, troubles in a relationship, or just talking about the past can trigger an obsession in us to relapse.

In our addiction, long periods of isolation became a way of life for us.

It's easy for us to become discouraged and feel sorry for ourselves when life doesn’t go the way we think it should.

Feelings cannot always be trusted. They often point us to an incorrect perception of who we are, who God is, and what is happening in our circumstances.

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

Making amends is a responsibility we must take seriously if we want to protect our sobriety.

Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself to relax and enjoy all that God is giving me.

Even though we usually associate individuals living in addiction as “party people” the truth is that using substances generally takes away one’s ability to relate to other people, to form friendships, and to do meaningful things with them.

The Bible is a wonderful source of support for us and tells us of many situations where Jesus showed compassion to those He encountered.