Meditations on "Surrender"

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.

How many times in a day do we struggle with the character defect of impatience?

Peace and serenity are gifts to be received. They are treasures to be chosen.

S As the Twelve Traditions are read at the meetings we attend, we join the reader on the final phrase with the words, “principles before personalities.

S The twelfth promise of AA reads: “We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

D Addiction is a disease of isolation. That’s not news to those of us who have spent time there.

The Psalms that we read and think about each Sunday are the ancient songbook of the church.

Due to the oppression of our addictive lifestyle, many of us made a move towards recovery only to struggle and relapse.

Many of us know from personal experience and what we have seen and heard from others that the consequences of a lifestyle of drug or alcohol misuse can be devastating.

Does it really pay to do what’s right? Up to now our practice has been to do whatever worked in the moment to get what we wanted.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the 12-Step movement founded by Alcoholics Anonymous is their emphasis on ordinary people – even broken and pretty much washed-up folks.

Jesus tells us that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.