Meditations on "Truth"

This is the beginning of the annual season of advent -- a time of preparing for Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

How do I get over sadness and disappointment? How does God want to work with me to deal with my feelings and circumstances?

Depression is defined in part as "a hollow; being in a low state; a state of sadness; dejection.

Does our happiness depend on everything in our life being just right?

The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.

Step Ten: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

STEP 5 – We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Amazing Grace is a well know hymn which was composed by John Newton a former slave trader.

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Two: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

The Twelve Steps program is a spiritually based program of recovery for individuals seeking healing from a variety of addictive lifestyles.

God never intended us to live independent from Him.