Meditations on ""

People in recovery are those who want to learn from the experience, strength, and hope of others.

Joseph and Mary were a family in crisis. Mary, by God’s plan and action, was pregnant prior to being married to Joseph.

Step-9 requires that we make direct amends to the people we have harmed, except when to do so would further harm them or others.

As kids many of us sang an action song with the words, “the head bone connected to the neck bone, the neck bone connected to the shoulder bone” and on and on down the bones to the toes.

G The following Psalm is one that in many ways expresses the emotions we were dealing with when we called out to God in our powerlessness over our dependency and the unmanageable lifestyle we were living.

E Many of us choose to rely on our own understanding of how life works and what is best for us.

What came first the chicken or the egg? When we called out to God in our powerlessness, did we suddenly show up on His “locating system” or was He already waiting for us to call and available to help us?

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

E From time to time some of us get into a rut and struggle to see the purpose that God has for our lives.

A mature person is productive and effective and, with the knowledge they have gained, they keep on improving their standing in the community while growing closer to God.

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.