Meditations on "Surrender"

Negative feelings are usually attached to a lie. To get beyond negative feelings we actually have to reject the attached lie and choose for the truth while our feelings are still vulnerable.

We spent a long time in addiction trying to have life as we wanted it because we thought that would make us happy and give us what we craved.

God wants us to be successful in recovery and in life so God gives us a clear description of what we are facing and what we need in order to do well.

Be careful! Watch out for attacks from the Devil, your great enemy.

To be “relapse proof” is to be surrendered to a new life that prioritizes God’s will in all we do and say and think.

Seasons change. The temperature warms up. The grass begins to grow again.

God doesn’t lie. God doesn’t sugar coat the truth.

When we have accepted the finished work of Jesus on the cross as payment for our sins, does this mean we should never reflect on guilty feelings when they arise?

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Jesus is risen from the dead. My life and my recovery have hope because He is.