Meditations on ""

In Step 2 of the 12-Step program we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

When we sober up and come into recovery, most of us quickly recognize that we have an anger problem.

Life is a journey and from its beginning to its end we are all influenced by the environment we live in.

In Step-7 we come to God and humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.

When His disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, the words that He used were full of wisdom on how to approach God in order that He both hear and answer their prayers.

When Jesus was teaching His friends about prayer He said this: Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for.

When Jesus was before Pilate the Roman Governor to whom the Jewish leaders had brought Him, Pilate asked Jesus, ”What is truth?

Living life with God in recovery is a learning process.

Yesterday, men and women who lost their lives in past wars were honoured with parades to the cenotaph in local communities.

Today we remember blood that was spilled on battlefields around the world by brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of freedom and justice.

Asking God to remove all our defects of character is requesting that He rid us of everything within that hinders our ability to live life to the full.

We are all looking for a peaceful life and God's word has a lot to say about how living well under authority with proper respect for leaders brings that to us.