Meditations on ""

Our old ways of thinking and behaving are being transformed as we journey with God in our new life in recovery. New things bring new challenges as they push against our old ways.

In the same way a weaver takes many threads and weaves them into intricate patterns for a wall hanging or a rug, so God continues to work all things together for our good in the details of each day of our lives.

Trying to be self-reliant and seeking to sort out life on our own took many of us into lifestyles of isolation, addiction, denial, and destructive behaviour. We were never meant to co-dependently rely on others to fix us, but to humbly admit that without God in our lives we are powerless to do anything about our situation and our lives are unmanageable.

As we work our program, we find that life changes. One area where we notice this change is given to us in the eleventh AA Promise when it says, “We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.”

We need to hear stories and look at symbols that help us pay attention and remember.

A good sponsor provides an objective point of view on troubling issues that arise and prayerful understanding about how healing is attained and how life works.

We are promised victory as we face trouble together with God and with people we trust to give us good advice.

In a moment of panic or temptation we don’t have to figure out what is really going on. We can simply tell ourselves to “do the next right thing”.

Only God’s touch can help us stand straight with dignity and strength and purpose today.

One of the consequences of living a destructive lifestyle is simply the sense of lostness we experience. Without the turning of our will and our lives over to the care of God, that darkness will end with us dying and going out to an eternity without God.

Time – a precious gift for all of us. God knows and cares about each of us at every time and in every season of our life.

As we recover, do we ever stop to consider what the deepest longing of our heart is? Jesus tells us that if we seek God’s Kingdom first, we will have everything we need.