Meditations on "Surrender"

Coming into a recovery group setting is threatening for many of us.

Many people who choose for life with God in recovery think they can live any way they want as long as they attend meetings, complete an honest set of steps, pray on occasion, and don’t pick up.

In recovery circles there is a saying, “You are only as sick as your secrets.

For all of us, it is difficult to face pain and need in our lives.

Do I truly want a life of intimacy with God in recovery?

It's spring - time for a good old-fashioned spring cleaning.

The choices we make today matter to God. God created women and men in His own image and brought them together in a loving relationship with Himself and with each other.

God’s great love for women and men caused Him to send His son into the world to pay the price of sin.

Our experience of love and satisfaction in life is tied directly to being obedient to the ways of God.

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.

God’s way is simple. Like little children trust the good and caring hearts of their parents so, in our new life with God in recovery, we need to believe that God is good and act accordingly.

When we first come into recovery, we tend to focus on our past behaviour and the things we have done wrong.