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The quest for peace in our souls begins at birth. As babies, we long for our mother’s comforting arms, as children we yearn for happy experiences, and as adults we strive to find success and fulfillment through relationships and jobs.

We begin the process of changing our self-centered way of living by first turning our will and our lives over to God’s care.

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with selfishness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

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

Life in addiction narrowed our focus to a self-centered view of what we wanted or thought we needed.

God knows that it is easy for us to let fear take control of our lives.

We live in an angry noisy world. Quiet people and their opinions and needs seem to get lost in the loud voices of protest and demand.

God’s way is simple. Like little children trust the good and caring hearts of their parents so, in our new life with God in recovery, we need to believe that God is good and act accordingly.

When we first come into recovery, we tend to focus on our past behaviour and the things we have done wrong.

When we come to new life in Christ we will seek after truth in all our affairs.

Denial keeps us in slavery because we are lying to ourselves.

Denial is described as a refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation.