Meditations on "Inventory"

As we prepare to do the steps in a recovery program, who among us enjoys doing a Step Four inventory or writing out the last 90 days of our addiction?

A character defect that most of us have is self-centeredness.

Step-10 encourages us to regularly take personal inventory and when we are wrong about anything to promptly admit it.

To some degree, all of us rely on ourselves to do those things that are important for life and happiness.

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

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.

God created man and woman in His own image and together they lived in loving relationship with Him and with each other.

How can a person become complete in God lacking nothing?

Depending on a given situation we often find ourselves caught in the tension between our desire for justice or mercy.

Step 10 of the 12-Step program encourages us to stay on track in our recovery with the following words: “We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

As we plan a time and place to draw near to God and bring our inventory of character defects before Him, we can ask God to do what is necessary in us so that they can be removed.

The saying "Straighten Up and Fly Right" has been around since Nat King Cole wrote and recorded a song with this title many years ago.