Meditations on "Inventory"

Just for today I will be unafraid, believing that as I trust in God with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, He will lead me along a good path.

The night before Jesus died he shared a meal with his friends, including one of his closest companions, Peter.

The desire to express our love for God and our neighbour should be the motivation behind what we do each day and how we work through our daily agenda.

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

We live in a time where the freedom to do what we want, when we want, with whomever we want, is the popular understanding of freedom and the source of a wonderful life.

When we notice the shortcomings in our character, do we immediately have a sense of remorse or are we more likely to try to justify them?

We are just moving into summer and hopefully looking forward to long hours and days in the sunshine.

The basic questions to ask ourselves when making a searching and fearless moral inventory are, "God what does my life look like to you?

Making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves – sorting out right from wrong, good from bad, and our part in past events -- is an important foundation for life in recovery.

What does integrity look like in our lives, in our time, and in our city?

Our addictive behaviour was rooted in incorrect beliefs about relationships.

To stop using our substance of choice is a great beginning in recovery but God knows that unless we deal with the underlying root of our habits and addictive practices we remain doomed for failure.