Meditations on "Truth"

Honesty, balance, and realism are essential tools to keep at hand as we sort out and rebuild relationships.

God invites us to a life of gentleness where we honour speaking the truth in love and respect the dignity of everyone, including ourselves.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

In the Bible we read many stories of how Jesus was sensitive to people and to what they were going through, and how He reached out to them with compassion.

In the Bible Jesus told a story about a father and two sons.

When we come into recovery one of our priorities must be sorting life according to what is true.

Just seeing the words "good reputation" brings a wry smile to those of us who have lived with something quite different in various stages of our life.

To live with wisdom in recovery requires humility.

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

Life in recovery without God is not worth the effort.

The way to become mature in our recovery and in life in general is through prayer and meditation on what we read in the Bible.

Just for today I will take note of one helpful thing God is saying to me and seek to behave accordingly.