Meditations on "Inventory"

God is willing to support and strengthen us as we lay down our self-directed ways and invite Him to lead us along the path He has chosen for us.

The longer we live in sobriety the more we recognize that we have lots to learn.

Does it really pay to do what’s right? Up to now our current practice has been to do whatever worked to get what we wanted.

Just for today I will be unafraid, believing that as I trust in God with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding, He will lead me along a good path.

Making decisions and taking responsibility for our choices requires courage.

Whether we speak words with our mouths or use our fingers to type them on social media, we seem to be people of many words.

The desire to express our love for God and our neighbour should be the motivation behind what we do each day and how we work through our agenda.

The night before Jesus died on the cross, He shared a meal with his friends including one of His closest companions, Peter.

In Step-6 we say we are entirely ready to have God remove all the character defects we have listed in our fearless moral inventory.

Step 5 is often a tough step to complete. With great apprehension we have made a fearless moral inventory of ourselves and now we must admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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

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?