Meditations on ""

Our pride often keeps us from asking to have our needs met.

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem and that we can't solve it on our own.

In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there is a section on making amends and sorting things out with our families.

I love these daily Meditations. I was blessed to have found them while I was an inmate at the Okanagan Correctional Centre.

Why would we continue to live life in our own way when it obviously isn’t pleasing, not even to us?

When troubles arise in our lives we often feel helpless to cope with them.

Planning gives us peace in our hearts knowing that we have reviewed the specifics of how to get to where we are going and what we need to get there.

In the middle of Jesus teaching about how to treat our enemies he inserts one of the most famous principles of human interaction called The Golden Rule.

Low self-esteem. No self-worth. This is the experience of many who suffer in addictive lifestyles.

When some of us became aware that our lives were on a dark downward pathway, we chose to admit that we were powerless over our dependency and our lives were unmanageable.

In recovery circles, some of us know what it is like to live in plenty and others of us have experienced what it is like to live in poverty.

We can dare to be optimistic about life and our recovery because God's unconditional love will strengthen and build us up.