Meditations on "Truth"

We all long to be genuine and sincere in our relationship with God, others, and ourselves, and yet we often find ourselves being fake and insincere.

We got to where we are today by our own irrational thinking and flawed solutions.

In certain situations, when our behaviour is challenged, we are quick to try to justify ourselves.

Early, if not first, on the list of qualities we need to build in our new life with God in recovery is optimism grounded in faith – faith that trusts in God, learns from God, and builds on the promises that God gives in the Bible.

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.

How are we to deal with a person who falsely accuses us of something we did not do?

Feelings cannot always be trusted. They often point us to an incorrect perception of who we are, who God is, and what is happening in our circumstances.

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

We may not see what goes on inside us, but the Bible tells us there is a battle going on for control of our minds.

Even though we usually associate individuals living in addiction as “party people” the truth is that using substances almost always takes away from our ability to relate to other people, to form friendships, and to do meaningful things with them.

When we confess the exact nature of our wrongs, the terrible isolation we've lived with for most of our lives will be exposed.