Meditations on "Powerless"

Each day in recovery is an opportunity to learn something new and grow.

When we come to God and admit that we are helpless to live life on our own and choose to surrender our will and life into His care, we are born again to a new life.

We lost our way. That's an obvious fact. We fell into an addictive and destructive lifestyle.

We came into recovery because we knew life wasn’t working.

When we were in our addiction we didn’t take care of ourselves and now we realize our need for getting healthy and emotionally strong.

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.

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

Hitting bottom is the place we reach in our addiction where we finally admit that we have a problem and that we can't solve it on our own.

Why would we continue to live life in our own way when it obviously isn’t pleasing, not even to us?

When some of us became aware that our lives were on a dark downward pathway, we chose to admit that we were powerless over our dependency and our lives were unmanageable.

Recovery begins when we come to our senses and affirm that we are powerless over alcohol or some other substance or habit, and our lives have become unmanageable.

Happy New Year! Really? Some of us may have woken up this morning to the fact that our lives are unmanageable and that we are powerless over our addictive behaviour.