Meditations on "Relationship"

Why do we celebrate Christmas? Why not just settle for a winter holiday of Santa and snow and parties and gifts?

For some people, holiday seasons cause pain and difficulty.

Step Nine calls for direct amends except when to do so might cause further injury.

Making amends is a responsibility we must take very seriously if we want to protect our sobriety.

God’s heart is for us to enjoy loving and caring relationships with others.

To allow God to remove all our defects of character is asking Him to take away everything that hinders our ability to live life to the full.

Step Six: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

When we entered a recovery program we may have looked around at the program staff and wondered why on earth they would choose to help us.

God invites us to joy and peace, to forgiveness and to loving relationship.

Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

The basic questions to ask when making a searching and fearless moral inventory are, "God what does my life look like to you?

What is the challenge for us as we reflect on making a searching, fearless, and moral inventory based on God’s way of life as revealed to us in the Bible?