Meditations on ""

Audio for CHARACTER STRENGTH - SHOWING RESPECT owing respect and being worthy of respect matters to God.

Contentment in life does not come from trying to control someone so they will meet our needs, or by trying to please them so they will like us and make us feel secure.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

When we first come into a recovery meeting and someone is asked to share their experience, strength, and hope with the group, we are often skeptical in our thoughts about what the person is saying.

Why does God bother with rebellious humankind? As we read stories in the Bible, we notice that the people of God are fickle.

We lost our way. That is an obvious fact. We fell into addictive and destructive lifestyles.

Shame is a powerful emotion that repeatedly tells us we are worthless, unacceptable, unforgiveable, and have no place in a loving relationship.

Almost everyone says they hate gossip and yet many of us are easily drawn into conversations that are unkind.

How many times have we spoken before we thought and, as the saying goes, “put our foot in our mouth?

To become willing to follow God's ways every day is a challenge for us who are used to running our own lives.

Healing is a process of restoring to health something that has been injured in some way.

From the chaos of our dysfunctional lives many of us called out to God with words like, “God if you are really there, please help me.