Meditations on "Powerless"

In sharing our recovery journey at meetings, we often look to the model of, "what life was like in addiction, what happened, and what life looks like now.

We lost our way. That is an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

Life has its ups and downs and does not always treat us fairly.

One of the coping mechanisms many of us use when dealing with low-self-esteem and the humiliation of our past failures is the mask of arrogance.

Some of us wonder where life will take us if we give our will and life over to the care of God.

A lot of us express self-hatred as we look at our personal appearance and our life experiences.

In the middle of the Bible, just after Psalms, we find the book of Proverbs which contains all sorts of practical wisdom about everyday living.

While we were living in addiction our daily agenda was completely centered on meeting our own needs.

In the Bible we read of all the good things that God does for those who have given their will and life into his care.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

God knows we are unable to find our way forward on our own and that it is impossible for us to consistently behave in healthy ways, no matter how much we want to.

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