Meditations on "Powerless"

Audio for GROWING WISE Jesus is our role model for how to live well with God in recovery.

After years of uncertainty and upheaval at every turn, it's wonderful to recover a life that has some stability.

Anyone who has lived in addiction knows that life's entire focus is on the thing we seek to satisfy our cravings.

If someone was to evaluate our daily interaction with others, would they describe us as gentle or harsh?

The night before Jesus died he shared a meal with his friends, including one of his closest companions, Peter.

Denial is described as a refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation.

In sobriety, we become aware of how much spiritual poison we’ve allowed to build up in our hearts and minds.

The familiar slogan “I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let Him” describes the first three steps of the Twelve Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

We tend to base our security on the experience of our personal relationships with others.

When we came to acknowledge that, on our own we were powerless over our addictive lifestyle, we sought help from those people who were known in the community to assist individuals like us in finding freedom from addiction.

In recovery, and in life in general, situations often arise which cause us to believe that we are alone and have no one to turn to for help.

Thinking and acting on our own self-centered thoughts often results in confusion and grief.