Meditations on "Relationship"

Au P AuddEACEFUL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH HUMILITY If we want to experience healthy and joyful relationships with God and with others each day of our lives, we will have to be willing to change our former ways.

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.

God created us to live in loving relationship with Him.

How many times have we spoken before we thought, and as the old truism says, “put our foot in our mouth?

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.

Jesus told the story of two men who went to church to pray.

At some point, in the darkness where we lived, we became aware that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our lives had become unmanageable.

Contentment in life does not come from trying to control someone so they will meet our needs, or by trying to please someone so they will like us and help us feel secure.

It’s easy for us to become discouraged and feel sorry for ourselves when life doesn’t go the way we think it should.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

God created the heavens and the earth and set them to run according to His established laws and boundaries.

To enjoy a healthy and satisfying life in recovery we need to recognize our need for growth in areas of our character which have been compromised.