Meditations on "Recovery"

In the Bible we read of many festivals that the people of Israel celebrated because God had intervened on their behalf.

How are we expected to know what is right? How do we know what is wrong?

Many of us choose to rely on our own understanding of how life works and what is best for us.

I wonder what people said on the day that we were born.

Many people who choose for life with God in recovery think they can live any way they want as long as they attend meetings, complete an honest set of steps, pray on occasion, and don't pick up.

This is the first Sunday of Advent. The word Advent means “Coming” and Advent is a season of the church year when many Christians observe a time of preparing for both the celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming.

One day when Jesus was at a dinner party given by a religious leader an uninvited woman with a bad reputation in the community entered the room.

Our lives in addiction were often shaped by characteristics of impatience and selfishness.

We all long for the joy and comfort of being in a loving intimate relationship with another.

ife with God in recovery is structured around telling the truth in all circumstances.

One of the central pillars of the recovery world is the sharing of our experience, strength, and hope.

Two women who went to a Tim Horton's coffee shop, bought many doughnuts and cups of coffee and began to give them out to people who were coming in as a "random act of kindness.