Meditations on "Acceptance"

As we follow God’s principles in all our affairs, we will experience great peace, and nothing will cause us to stumble.

If real change and growth is to take place, our lives need to be given over to the care of God.

If we do the right thing, we will not only find the life we long for but will be a positive influence on others as well.

We won’t necessarily understand WHY we are at peace, but we will recognize a calmness and a serenity in a deep place within us that wasn’t there before.

We don’t have to have perfect parents to honour them as God intends. We can learn from their wisdom and their mistakes.

God’s plans for us are better than we could ask for or even dream about for ourselves

God knows that unless we deal with the underlying root of our habits and addictive practices, we will remain doomed for failure.

In order to claim the promises of God we need to know the details of our inheritance as recorded in the Bible.

We come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Without God’s wisdom, none of us know how to live purposefully in this life, or what will happen to us in the next.

Sometimes we think we have got recovery because we are feeling fine. It's when we think like this that we are most vulnerable to relapse to our substance of choice, or habit, or of sliding into other unhealthy behaviours.

It’s in the turning of our will and our life over to God on a moment by moment, day by day basis, that we are safe under the protection of God.