Meditations on "Inventory"

Every day of our lives, and especially when we come into recovery, we need the healing power of God to bring us to new life.

Rudeness shows itself in our speech and actions towards others.

When we say in Step 12 that we have had a spiritual wakening, we are describing the impact we have experienced as we’ve completed the first eleven steps.

Too often dealing with denial is incorrectly focused on the circumstances surrounding the use of our substance of choice or other destructive habits for which we are now seeking treatment and God’s help to overcome.

As we read the words of Jesus in the Bible, we will see that He often makes reference to earthly things in order to illustrate how precious our relationship is with Him.

It’s not surprising that living in active addiction for years is often described as having a habit.

The purpose of Step 6 is to help us address those personal defects of character that result from our discontentment with life.

Step 5 of the 12-Step program of AA asks that we admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Human beings are wonderfully complex creations of God.

The following words from a Psalm by King David were written after he had allowed his lust for a woman to lead him down the path of sexual immorality and murder.

Step 10 advises us to continue to take personal inventory and, when we are wrong, promptly admit it.

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?