Meditations on "Powerless"

One of the promises given to us as we grow in our recovery is: No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

When we turned our will and life over to the care of God, we gave God permission to take our unmanageable life and make us new.

Many of us blame God because bad things happened to us when we were powerless to change the situation.

When we struggle to do what is right it can be helpful to remember that God knows about the battle and provides a promise for success with a clear strategy for attaining it, “keep alert and pray”.

Everyday life has it challenges but each day is also filled with many simple pleasures.

Those who make steady progress in recovery are those who remain focused and give careful attention each day to what works.

As we come before the Lord, either alone or together with others, is our mind focused on praising God for all He has done in our lives?

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem that we cannot solve on our own.

When we determined that we could no longer live in the insanity that was our daily life, we knew we needed to be free from the bondage of our dependency.

When we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, what were we expecting to happen?

“I am a walking miracle” is a slogan we often hear said in recovery meetings.

We come into recovery because we recognize we are powerless over addictive substances, people, or things that we have become dependent on to sustain life as we know it.