Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... May 6, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Ideas

From "Trying the Twelve Steps:"

"If you really listen to (not just hear) what is being said, you may find the person talking has quietly slipped inside your head and seems to be describing the landscape there --the shifting shapes of nameless fears, the color and chill of impending doom -- if not the actual events and words stored in your brain.

"And whether this happens or not, you will surely have a good laugh or two in the company of AA's, and you'll probably pick up a couple of ideas on living sober."

c. 1975, Living Sober, page 85

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Sharing and seeing the “sameness” of our fellow recovering folks, often brings us into deep friendships.  Having women and men we trust enough to share our deepest secrets with is one of the many gifts of the program.  While it's true that most of us already had friends, we seldom told them everything about ourselves. 

We held back the most intimate details to protect ourselves. 

We thought if they really knew us, they'd never want to be our friends. 

Our understanding of friendship has changed since being introduced to the Twelve Steps. 

How we act as friends has changed too.  Now we know that friends don't judge, they don't try to control, they accept how other people are, and they never betray a confidence. 

They listen, they love, and they offer hope.  And they don't run away when they don't like what they hear.

It is the perfect love and acceptance that God shows to us every day of our lives.  He demonstrated this love by sending Jesus to die in our place for our sins, because God wants us to be near Him. 

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?  Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.  For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.” -- I John 3:16-20

* As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:

·        greater personal discipline,

·        worldwide persecuted Christians,

·        Hedge of protection to our children

·        Blessings to our spouses

·        Godly men in Government

·        Rest and Peace to our pastors

·        Your activities for the day.

Love One Another

Stand Together

Fight this war, no matter the cost

Pray for our children

Turn our hearts toward heaven

Seek to be one nation under God.

God Bless and Guide You in your Christian Walk Today

“The Lord bless you and keep you,
the Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
-- Numbers 6:24-27

You can help when no one else can."
  -- c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89
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