Meditations on "Relationship"

For many of us coming out of an unmanageable lifestyle, we find that doing the right thing does not come easily.

We live in a time when revenge and resentment often appear to be more valued than forgiveness.

Jealousy is a negative and damaging emotion. It’s the feeling we have when something we believe is ours is given to someone else.

Living life with God in recovery is a learning process.

Depending on a given situation we often find ourselves caught in the tension between our desire for justice or mercy.

As God draws us into a deeper relationship with Him, the devil and his forces of darkness try to make us doubt God and His Word as recorded in the Bible.

Those of us who are recovering from the mess of our lives know there is a hunger and thirst within us for something more than what life has offered us so far.

Many of us struggle with health issues both in our bodies and in our minds.

We are told in the Bible that love never fails, but in our relationships with others we often fail to love.

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with selfishness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

Understanding the relationship between self-image and addiction is like a chicken and egg situation – trying to interpret which came first.

Some of us slid into destructive and addictive lifestyles out of a desire to have friends and companions to belong to.