Meditations on "Inventory"

How can a person become complete in God, lacking nothing?

To become willing to follow God's ways is an everyday challenge for those of us who are used to running our own lives.

A well-known sinful woman came to a place where Jesus was eating dinner with some religious leaders of His time.

We are not very far into our recovery program when we come face to face with Step Four which asks us to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

When someone or something is the best that it can be, we say it is mature or complete.

Jesus told the story of two men who went to church to pray.

When we turn our will and our life over to God’s care and trust the new life He gives us, does that mean we should never again reflect on guilty feelings?

There are many items to think about when we are compiling a daily inventory of how we are doing in life and recovery.

When we wake up from the haze of our addiction and reflect on the harm we have caused in our relationships or when we make an inventory of our character defects and deep sorrow overwhelms us because of what we have done, the question to ask ourselves is, "Am I saddened enough by the painful mess I am in to be willing to come to God and admit that I am powerless over my self-willed ways?

An important character strength to develop is tolerance, which is being patient, understanding, and accepting of something different from what we are familiar with.

When we turn our will and our life over to God’s care and trust in the new life Jesus gives us, does that mean we should never reflect on guilty feelings?

Many of us lost our true identity because we grew up in dysfunctional families and were forced to assume survival roles.