Meditations on "Truth"

When we live in depression our number-one enemy is our emotions.

The quest for peace in our souls begins at birth. As babies, we long for our mother’s comforting arms, as children we yearn for happy experiences, and as adults we strive to find success and fulfillment through relationships and jobs.

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

God’s way is simple. Like little children trust the good and caring hearts of their parents so, in our new life with God in recovery, we need to believe that God is good and act accordingly.

When we come to new life in Christ we will seek after truth in all our affairs.

Denial keeps us in slavery because we are lying to ourselves.

Denial is described as a refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation.

Life is more than just about us. God wants us to have the wonderful character qualities that He has.

Life in addiction is life in isolation. We figure things out on our own.

We will always feel vulnerable when we choose to live life without God.

While we were in addiction our daily agenda was fully centered on meeting our own needs.

When we are recovering from our addictive lifestyle we often do not feel like singing.