Meditations on "Recovery"

It's summertime – time for rest and recreation and hopefully some quality time with friends and/or family.

The contrast of destructive self-centeredness in active addiction with the healthy lifestyle of supporting one another in recovery is clearly expressed in Promise 7 of AA: We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

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.

To be responsible recovering addicts, we need to have regular contact with God and seek His wisdom and His will for our lives.

How many of us check out the soil in which we want to grow plants or vegetables?

For a variety of reasons, many of us have an underlying structure of disorders that is damaging to us and to others.

If someone were to choose 3 words to describe us, would “generous” be one of them?

When we were trapped in our own personal hell and in bondage to the substance that medicated us, we called out to God.

When we turned our will and life over to God many of us had hope for a quick turnaround in our lives.

The experience of life outside the will and care of God is helplessness and frustration when trials and temptations come our way.

God tells us to pray for one another, so what does that look like?

Jesus tells us that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.