Meditations on "Truth"

All of us like to be appreciated when we feel we have acted wisely or done a good job.

Audio for Across Canada the first Monday in August is a holiday.

As we sit at home watching our leaders on TV it is easy to make controversial comments about how they are running the affairs of the country or city where we live.

When we begin a searching and fearless moral inventory, we often list the obvious things we know are not in keeping with God's will.

This life we have been given, this new season that is before us, begins with each new day.

Audio for OVERCOMING OVERWHELMING DISCOURAGEMENT We seek recovery when our lives are unmanageable, and we are powerless to change.

God has given gifts to everyone; no one has been left out.

When we think of God, how do we imagine Him to be? Do we see Him as a judge ready to pass sentence on us when we do wrong, or do we see Him as the ever-loving God who has compassion on us and desires to care for us?

We hang around with all sorts of people in a variety of situations.

To cope with living an addictive lifestyle we often repressed our moral thinking and denied the downward trend we were on.

The new birth we receive when we give our will and life over to the care of God is the end of our old life dominated by sinful thoughts, formed in an unspiritual mind.

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