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Our Primary Purpose

Monday June 29, 2020

In Tradition 6 of AA we are given guidelines lest “problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.”  Whether it is the health of a gathered group or the living out of our individual life in recovery, we need to avoid whatever diverts us from what is most important.

What a shift in our focus during the season of the COVID-19 crisis.  So many things we all felt were important in our lives were suddenly restricted.  Across our community and around the world people submitted to physical distancing and social isolation in order to focus on “flattening the curve” of infection and death.  We all stayed home.  Meetings had to go online because it was no longer safe to get together in confined spaces. 




Big problems require focused attention.  Our addiction and the brokenness of our lives require us to get our priorities straight in order to live sober and have hope for the future.  If we are to continue to live in sobriety, there are many issues of injustice and tragedy in our past which require unravelling and healing but the important thing is we get to the core of our problems and deal with the underlying issue.  What is that? 

God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.  (John 3:16 CEV)





God created us in love for relationship with Himself. We were to oversee His good plans for the earth and ensure everything in it would flourish.  All acts of self-will, done either in rebellion or fear, divert us from the primary reason we are on this earth – to know God, to love God, and to experience His love for us. 

Some questions we need to ask ourselves each day so we don’t “pick up” again are:  Am I living in God’s love today?  Have I brought myself to a place of consciously placing my will and my life into God’s care and, am I making all of my plans and decisions based on that?




Prayer:  Heavenly Father, There is no sobriety or life for me outside of what You give me when I put my faith and trust in You.  Please help me to honour You each day in every decision I make and every action I take.  Amen

©2020 Partners in Hope 
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