Recovery Meditations

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

Unrealistic expectations will lead us to disappointment and, if we are not careful, may also lead us to relapse.

Do I matter? Does anyone notice me? Does anyone care?

When we notice the shortcomings in our character, do we immediately have a sense of remorse or are we more likely to try to justify them?

When we begin a searching and fearless moral inventory, we often list the obvious things we know that are not in keeping with God's will.

When we say we have given our will and life over to the care of God, what does that mean to us?

God's kingdom runs on the laws of love and peace. It really does!

Depending on a given situation, we often find ourselves caught up in the conflict of our desire for justice or mercy.

Jesus said that the greatest commandment is, to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.

We are not shaped so much by our environment as we are by our perception of our environment.

Sobriety in recovery is never a one-person activity.

We sought recovery when we admitted our lives were unmanageable, and we were powerless to change.