Meditations on "Recovery"

Being rude refers to words or actions that are improper, impolite, or crude with intent to offend or put down a person or a group that we disagree with.

The future King David writes this Psalm while he is travelling in the desert of Judea and sleeping and hiding in caves from King Saul who is trying to kill him.

Money is often seen as the source of contentment and happiness.

At one time or another all of us have surrendered to peer pressure.

God has made many promises, some of which are conditional on our obedience to do what He says.

When we come to know God, the Higher Power who will restore us to sanity, our whole being is turned from darkness to light.

We have full assurance of receiving what we ask for, when we humbly come before God and ask Him to remove our shortcomings.

It is so much easier to name ways that others irritate us than to accept there are ways we irritate others.

In his distress, the person who wrote the following Psalm is making many promises to God.

Many of us when we start walking with God are unfamiliar with the full counsel of God’s word as recorded in the Bible and very few ever reach that place of complete knowledge.

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous makes this statement: “Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.

Everyone wants a happy life. In the past some of us tried to achieve a good life by taking what seemed to be shortcuts.