Recovery Meditations

Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful.

Powerful people harass me without cause, but my heart trembles only at your word.

Seeking out those to whom we need to make amends can be intimidating.

Steps 1, 2, and 3 of the 12-Step program help us develop faith in Jesus Christ, a power greater than ourselves who can restore us to sanity.

We are reminded over and over again in the AA Traditions, Twelve Steps, and the experience of so many of us, that it is the simplicity and focus of sticking with one primary purpose that helps us help one another.

One of the ways many of us try to hide our hurt and anger is through sarcasm.

God wants us to “get it right.” If we will pay attention to, and obey what we learn from God’s Word, God’s Spirit will lead us on the right path every time.

We come into recovery because we are tired and worn out from the physical and emotional consequences of a lifestyle of addiction and the destruction it imposes.

Creation suggests that there is an intelligent creator.

Rudeness shows itself in our speech and actions towards others.

A saying we often hear is, “What goes around comes around.

As we seek to restore a clear conscience before God we need to examine the truthfulness of our society’s values.