Meditations on "Truth"

It's summertime – time for rest and recreation and hopefully some quality time with friends and/or family.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

It is so much easier to name ways that others irritate us than to accept that there are ways we irritate others.

To make restitution is to restore something that was stolen or lost.

One of the great comforts and challenges, all at the same time, is the reality that we are powerless to manage our lives on our own.

Making decisions and taking responsibility for our choices requires courage.

In active addiction, trying to stay connected and maintain a close, healthy relationship with another was impossible.

The longer we are in sobriety the more we recognize that we have lots to learn.

As kids many of us sang an action song with the words, “The head bone connected to the neck bone, the neck bone connected to the shoulder bone” and on and on down the bones to the toes.

We all know that our thoughts and emotions significantly impact our health.

Addicts tell lies. We tell ourselves we need our substance of choice in order to deal with the issues of the day.

In Step Eleven, through prayer and meditation, we seek to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry it out.