Meditations on "Surrender"

Jesus told many stories of what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.

When we pray the full version of the Serenity Prayer, what are we asking God to do for us?

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing. We have lived and relied on our own understanding for years and now it has become a way of life that we find no fault with.

The Bible tells us that on the third day of creation God spoke and vegetation was created on the earth.

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

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.

When we have admitted to ourselves and another human being the harm we have caused, the next step is to ask God to forgive us for our self-centered way of living.

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

A saying we often hear in stormy life circumstances and recovery circles is "live one day at a time.

Just for today I will adjust myself to what is and not try to adjust everything else to my desires.

Persons like us, who have been living in an addictive lifestyle, seldom consider what is happening in the lives of our family or friends.

What does Jesus death have to do with us? Well, maybe nothing and maybe everything -- the choice is ours.