Meditations on "Truth"

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

One day Jesus and His friends faced a huge problem.

One of the Twelve Promises of AA tells us: We will comprehend the word serenity, and we will know peace.

When we look at people who appear to have it all together, we envy them, especially when our life is not harmonious or as settled as we would like it to be.

Confrontational people tend to approach situations with aggression.

Control issues are widespread in addiction and are a problem for both the addict and for those who care about them.

Feelings cannot always be trusted. They often point us to an incorrect perception of who we are, who God is, and what is happening in our circumstances.

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

We may not see what goes on inside us, but the Bible tells us there is a battle going on for control of our minds.

Even though we usually associate individuals living in addiction as “party people” the truth is that using substances generally takes away one’s ability to relate to other people, to form friendships, and to do meaningful things with them.

When we confess the exact nature of our wrongs, the terrible isolation we've lived with for most of our lives will be exposed.