Partners in Hope

To live in recovery is to live as respectful people, honouring God and those God loves. How does my speech reflect this?

Are we a person with genuine compassion who seeks to help another?

Covering up traumatic events with painkillers does not make them go away.  In fact, as so many of us can testify, the memories, whether we are consciously aware of them or not, cause fear and shame to grow and become like mountains that block and confuse our thinking and affect our behaviour.  God invites us to bring the trauma we have suffered and its impact on us to Him for comfort and healing.

What does it mean to be a person with discretion? This is something we don’t often see practiced as we live in a culture where people want to “speak about their truth” regardless of the impact on others. It's a challenge to both gain and practice discrectionbut we are given clear help in the Bible.

God wants us to be responsible and generous with all He has given us – time, abilities, money, possessions. God does not want us to carelessly spend the money and resources we have as soon as we get them, with no thought about what we might need in the future. He also wants us to help others even though we might feel our resources are limited. God wants us to ask for wisdom and seek His will in how we use the resources we have been given.  He promises to bless us when we do.

I think we wouldn’t get much argument from anyone if we described someone with good character as being, honest, responsible, generous, caring, fair etc.  These are all seen a good character traits and the more we live in them, regardless of our circumstances, the more we become known as people of good character.