Meditations on "Recovery"

Recognizing and marking milestones (clean time in recovery) is a way to celebrate our sobriety and give hope to others who attend recovery meetings with us.

When we pray for God’s will and the power to carry it out, God just doesn’t point to something unfocused in the distance.

Sometimes people in recovery circles are obsessed with past failures.

Some of us in recovery circles know what it is like to live in plenty and others of us have experienced what it is like to live in poverty.

Living in addiction is living emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

When we came into recovery we admitted that our lives were unmanageable and we needed a power greater than ourselves to restore us to sanity.

Too many of us continue to drive our vehicles while distracted by cell phones or other things that capture our attention.

“My life is of great beauty and infinite value. God has a plan for my life that is meaningful, purposeful, and joyful.

After living so long in the self-centered world of addiction, it’s not easy to come into recovery and build relationships with other human beings, particularly those who like us have lived in self-centered ways.

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Faith and hope in God are foundational to a positive outlook on life in recovery.