Meditations on "Relationship"

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

Once we have cleaned up our lives from all past involvement in destructive and addictive practices we are home free for a life of joy and peace and blessing, right?

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

God longs for us to experience love and blessing in relationship with others.

Trying to be self-reliant and seeking to sort out life on our own took many of us into lifestyles of isolation, addiction, denial, and destructive behaviour.

It’s time to confess the error of our ways when we choose to deal with life situations in the isolation of our own minds and hearts.

In active addiction we seldom made the right choice and even now in recovery it is still a learning process.

How do we feel when people who should recognize us don’t?

After years of uncertainty and upheaval at every turn, it's wonderful to recover a life that has some stability.

When we talk about intimacy we are usually referring to a close, familiar, protective, loving relationship between two persons.

When thanksgiving becomes a way of life rather than a day of celebration on the calendar, life will change for us.

A lifestyle of loving God and loving our neighbour is the foundation of our new life with God in recovery.