Meditations on "Surrender"

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

God is aware of every difficult moment we have experienced and the pain we have endured for every wrong done to us or by us.

This life we have been given, this new season that is before us, begins with each new day.

Anger in our society is rampant. Most of us have a hard time dealing with anger.

When we look at people who appear to have it all together, we envy them, especially when our life is not harmonious or as complete as we would like it to be.

Everyone faces unwanted hardship and troubles. Often hardship comes because we act in ways that are unwise and end up in circumstances we did not anticipate.

We usually say an individual is “white knuckling” when they are just using willpower to stay sober.

We lost our way. That's an obvious fact. We fell into addiction and a destructive lifestyle.

When we have admitted to ourselves and another human being the harm we have caused, the next step is to ask God to forgive us and free us from our self-centered way of living.

In the Big Book of AA, we are advised to use discretion in knowing how much time and attention to give to any one situation in comparison to another situation where someone might benefit in their desire to recover if given more time and support.

When we repent of our sin and surrender our will and life over to the care of God, amazing things happen.

A saying we often hear in unpredictable circumstances and in recovery circles is "live one day at a time.