The Recovery Show

Listen – a meditation

    If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen.     In this program, I have learned to listen. In most meetings, I cannot interrupt, comment, or respond immediately or directly to another person’s share. I can only sit and listen. I can only take in what…

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Acceptance – Pilot episode 3

Kelli leads a discussion with Swetha and Spencer about acceptance. Kelli opened with a reading that begins “It is said that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional …” She speaks of her previous belief that accepting something meant thinking that it was right. She has grown into an attitude of patience, acceptance, and tolerance…

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Presence – a meditation

  I have finally found a place to live just like I never could before. And I know I don’t have much to give, but soon I’ll open any door. Everybody knows the secret, everybody knows the score. I have finally found a place to live in the presence of the lord. Eric Clapton –…

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Make the present beautiful – a meditation

      Do not look back, and grieve over the past, for it is gone; do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.     A meditation for December 22, 2012.  

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Dark and light – a meditation

    On this day of the longest dark night, let us welcome the light of the returning Sun with hope and joy.       Happy solstice. A meditation for December 21, 2012.  

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