Meditations on "Truth"

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.

To be suspicious can be good or bad depending on the circumstances.

The 12-Step road often seems a long and winding one to us and some of us think we can reach the same destination by taking shortcuts that are more agreeable.

Why do we look at another’s sin and want them punished for what they have done and then look at our own sin and want compassion and forgiveness?

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.

When we look back at our lives, we see that the road that took us down the path to addiction was strewn with flawed thinking and self-deception.

Step 10 advises us to continue to take personal inventory and, when we are wrong, promptly admit it.

In the Bible we read a story about how God spoke to the Prophet Samuel to anoint David, a shepherd boy, to be King over Israel.