Meditations on ""

Moving forward in identifying character defects and allowing God to help us develop our true character is no easy process.

What does it mean to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings?

God hates violence and His heart is grieved by the things that humans do to one another.

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

One of the things which many of us experienced while growing up, and which probably had something to do with our journey into an addictive and destructive lifestyle, was the lack of attention paid to us as children.

Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful.

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

For all of us there came a time when we could no longer avoid the realization that our lives were a mess.

We don’t really know God until we know that God is love and that God’s love for us is unfailing.

Honesty, balance, and realism are essential tools to keep at hand as we sort out and rebuild relationships.

We are exposed to traumatic events in the world by the 24-hour news cycle on television and on our digital devices.

Anger in our society is rampant. Most of us have a hard time dealing with anger.