Meditations on "Truth"

Living in addiction is living emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

Many of us have been in the company of others who think they know everything but when they open their mouths very little wisdom is detected.

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.

Blessed are those who live in your house. They are always praising you.

One of the coping mechanisms many of us use when dealing with low-self-esteem and the humiliation of our past failures is the mask of arrogance.

As we prepare to do the steps in a recovery program, who among us enjoys doing a Step Four inventory or writing out the last 90 days of our addiction?

We read in the 12-Steps program material about turning our will and our life over to the care of God.

The Bible is full of God's promises to help us in our time of need.

Sometimes where we live and the people with whom we communicate add trouble to our lives and the lives of others by what they say or do.

I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there.

When we turned our will and life over to the care of God, we started a life journey to live sober.

Recovery begins when we come to our senses and affirm that we are powerless over alcohol or some other substance or habit and that our lives have become unmanageable.