Meditations on "Inventory"

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

Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

Our old ways of thinking and behaving are being replaced as we journey with God in our new life in recovery.

Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Audio for TWELVE STEPS OF A.A. - STEP FOUR - MADE A SEARCHING ANDFEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES (2) Many of us come into recovery longing for a new way of life in relationship with God, family and others.

Audio for TWELVE STEPS OF A.A. - STEP FOUR - MADE A SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES (1) What is the challenge for us as we reflect on making a searching, fearless, and moral inventory based on God’s way of life as revealed to us in the Bible?

“Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!

Repeatedly, we hear doctors encouraging us to exercise every day.

The problem for many of us is that as we begin to follow the way of God’s truth we start to encounter opposition in our minds.

Our experience in addiction has taught us that it’s easier and more convenient to lie rather than tell the truth.

Telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, seems almost impossible in today’s culture and yet this is the path God points us to as we seek a satisfying and stable life in recovery.

What makes life good? Today, how can we live with a sense of well-being, a heart that is light, and the security of knowing that our relationship with God is on track?