Meditations on ""

God longs for us to experience love and blessing in relationship with others.

How many of us have taken time through prayer and meditation on God’s Word to learn about God, about His ways, and about His promises to those of us who have given our will and life into His care.

One of the central pillars of the recovery world is the sharing of our experience, strength, and hope.

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.

As we work our program we find that life changes. Nothing happens in an instant but when we reflect on a month, or 90 days, or a year or more and compare the person we once were with the person we are now, the transformation is striking.

Today we remember blood that was spilled on battlefields around the world by brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice.

R When we come to Step-6 of the 12-Step program, we have admitted the exact nature of our wrongs to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, and are now entirely ready to have God remove our defects of character.

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

We know that God watches over all the earth and sees the wickedness that causes His anger to burn against those who inflict pain and injustice on others.

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity and as we moved along in our life in recovery many of us came to that place where we made a decision to turn our will and our life over to the care of God.

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.

In the recovery process, do we ever stop to consider what the deepest longing of our heart is?