Meditations on "Truth"

Before anyone gives their will and life over to the care of God, the Scriptures tell us they are dead in their trespasses and sins.

Living with God in recovery often presents difficult challenges such as: waiting for something we feel desperately in need of right now; not retaliating with anger when someone offends us; living with less when we could scam our way into having more; and facing the consequences of revealing a difficult truth.

As we remember service men and women who served our nation in times of war and other national troubles, it’s good to be mindful of words from the Bible that prompt us to remember God’s help in our time of need.

Why do people argue? Apparently there are lots of reasons.

When we admitted we were powerless over our dependencies and our lives had become unmanageable we were, in a sense, like the man robbed and beaten in the parable of the good Samaritan.

Self-worth is the value we see in ourselves and our role in life.

Some of us say we have hope in God, but what does that mean?

Tomorrow night many children put on costumes and go door-to-door “trick-or-treating.

When we first come into recovery many of us are intimidated by the thought of speaking to God in prayer.

There’s nothing more satisfying than finishing a job and having someone say, “What a good job you’ve done!

The Bible makes it clear that God detests lying. Most of the time we did not speak the truth.

Before we were willing to admit that we were powerless over our dependencies and our lives were unmanageable, there may have been a time when we really wanted to do good but were unable to do so.