Meditations on "Surrender"

Many of us have questioned God about the purpose for our existence and the reason why certain things have happened to us.

When we pray the full version of the Serenity Prayer, what are we asking God to do for us?

We realized that our life was unmanageable, and we got to where we are at by our own irrational thinking and flawed solutions to life situations.

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing.

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

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

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

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

In the Big Book of AA, we are advised to use discretion in knowing how much time and attention to give to any one person or situation.

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

One of our natural responses to the pressure and challenges of daily life is to indulge in self-pity.

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