Recovery Meditations

The very heart of God is enduring love, and nothing will ever change that.

Many children will go to bed tonight with the thought “One more sleep until Santa Claus comes.

The celebration of Christmas encourages us to give gifts to those we care about.

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere this is both the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

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 so He could help us?

In the Bible we read of many festivals that the people of Israel celebrated because God had intervened on their behalf.

Christmas decorations, inside and outside malls, stores, and homes, have been put up to celebrate the Christmas season.

As we prepare our hearts for the celebration of Christ’s birth, some of us may have negative memories and regrets about past Christmases.

How are we expected to know what is right? How do we know what is wrong?

Many of us have struggled to believe the Word of God as written in the Bible.

We all know that staying sober starts with not picking up a drink or our drug of choice, or returning to whatever our destructive habit was.

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.