Meditations on "Surrender"

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

In recovery, and in life in general, situations often arise which cause us to believe that we are alone and have no one to turn to for help.

Thinking and acting on our own self-centered thoughts often results in confusion and grief.

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

God's kingdom runs on the laws of love and peace. It really does!

God never intended that we would know evil, let alone experience it.

It’s important to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God in all our affairs.

As we have experienced healing and transformation through daily living in the love and grace of God, we need to share our story – our experience, strength, and hope – with others.

Who can we trust? Who's reliable? Who tells the truth?

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

Asking God to remove all our defects of character is giving Him permission to expose and remove those things that are hindering our ability to live life to the full.