Meditations on "Surrender"

Mother Teresa got it right when she said, “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

We don’t need to be told that emotional trauma is painful.

Most of us have heard the fairy-tale of the race between a rabbit and a turtle.

The long days of summer are beginning to wind down.

God is willing, and more than able, to remove all our defects of character if we humbly ask Him.

In the past, one of the lies we bought into was that the party life was where the greatest enjoyment of life was to be found.

The purpose of Step 6 of the 12-Step program is to help us address those personal defects of character that result from our discontentment with life.

Our pride often keeps us from asking for what we need.

Some of us slid into destructive and addictive lifestyles out of a desire to have friends and companions to belong to.

Many people who come into recovery seeking victory over drugs and alcohol find themselves relapsing into addictive lifestyles when they refuse to obey God’s teaching on sexual purity.