Meditations on "Amends"

In “How It Works” we read and hear the words read regularly in meetings: Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.

We have all been hurt and let down by others. It’s simply a part of being around humans.

In the Big Book of AA, we are advised to use discretion in knowing how much time and attention to give to any one situation in comparison to another situation where someone might benefit in their desire to recover if given more time and support.

Just for today I will try to live in conscious contact with God praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.

The second promise found in the Big Book of AA tells us that if we diligently work the steps, “We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there is a section on making amends and sorting things out with our families.

An important part of recovery is coming to a truthful view of what happened in our relationships.

Step-10 encourages us to regularly take personal inventory and when we are wrong about anything to promptly admit it.

Step-9 requires that we make direct amends to the people we have harmed, except when to do so would further harm them or others.

S In Step 8 we make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them.

One of the central pillars of the recovery world is the sharing of our experience, strength, and hope.

All of us who have weathered the storm of an addictive lifestyle know that our days were filled with trials of one sort or another.