Meditations on "Truth"

The way we think has the most powerful impact on how we face each day.

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer authored by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

People who wink at wrong cause trouble, but a bold reproof promotes peace.

Trusting Jesus and doing what He says is the only key to successful recovery.

When we notice the shortcomings in our character, do we immediately have a sense of remorse or are we more likely to try to justify them?

We are not shaped so much by our environment as we are by our perception of our environment.

Who can we trust? Who's reliable? Who tells the truth?

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with self-centeredness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.

For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.

When we become unsettled in our recovery we often find that we begin to entertain risky thoughts that make us vulnerable to relapse.

We often feel awkward about bringing our recurring sins before God.

I belong; I have worth; I am adequate and/or competent.