Meditations on "Lies"

The following words were written thousands of years ago and yet they are an accurate description of many of us before we came into recovery.

Addicts tell lies. We tell ourselves we need our substance of choice in order to deal with the day.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

Jesus always spoke the truth. He encouraged people to follow Him because He is the way, the truth, and the life.

We don’t need to be told that emotional trauma is painful.

Most of us have heard the fairy-tale of the race between a rabbit and a turtle.

Part of being human is experiencing some wounding. It may be a scraped knee from falling, a burned finger from touching something hot, or a variety of other things that injure us.

The long days of summer are beginning to wind down.

The Bible makes it clear that God detests lying. In our addiction, most of the time, we did not speak the truth.

In the past, one of the lies we bought into was that the party life was where the greatest enjoyment of life was to be found.

The purpose of Step 6 of the 12-Step program is to help us address those personal defects of character that result from our discontentment with life.

A sincere person is one who is honest, who doesn’t create false impressions, and who doesn’t operate with selfish motives.