Meditations on "Powerless"

Life in recovery has many vulnerable moments, especially in the early days.

In the beginning God created us to live in conscious contact with Him.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

When we lived in the chaos of our addictive lifestyle we were ruled by the obsession or dependency of the day.

When we began our recovery program, some of us had already been praying for help from a God we did not know.

Often when we start to live sober in recovery we feel overwhelmed by past life events.

When we surrender our will and our lives into God’s care, He establishes a living connection between us and Him.

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

God loves us and wants us to experience peace and joy in life.

When life is overwhelming, we often turn to addictive habits to help us hide from our negative emotions.

Our pride often keeps us from asking to have our needs met.

When we finally admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our life had become empty and unmanageable, we sought a recovery program.