Meditations on "Inventory"

An important character strength to develop is tolerance – being patient, understanding, and accepting of something different.

When we have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs, do we see ourselves, in comparison to others, as more worthy or less worthy of God’s forgiveness?

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.

Making decisions and taking responsibility for our choices requires courage.

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

We all know that our thoughts and emotions significantly impact our health.

It’s a useful practice to take regular inventory of our lives.

The 12-Step Road often seems a long and winding one to us and some of us think we can reach our destination by taking shortcuts that are more agreeable.

In the prayer Jesus taught His friends when they asked Him how to pray there is a line that says, "Your kingdom come.

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.

When we come to Step 4 in the 12-Step program we are asked to focus on ourselves and make a searching and fearless moral inventory.