Meditations on "Rationalizing"

How can we be a person who stops gossip rather than one who contributes to its spread?

God now gets praise from others through the witness of our life with Him in recovery.

How many times did we think we were smart enough to get away with something that was dishonest, and it didn’t cause us any concern as long as we were not caught? To avoid problems in life and in our recovery this kind of thinking and behaving needs to change.

In certain situations, when our behaviour is challenged, we are quick to try to justify ourselves because we are unwilling to see the exact nature of our wrongs. Self-justification is rooted in the thinking that we are better human beings than we truly are. It’s time to admit that wrong is wrong, and that we are guilty of wrong thinking and wrong doing.

God created us to live in loving relationship with Him.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

When we confess the exact nature of our wrongs, the terrible isolation we've lived with for most of our lives will be exposed.

In active addiction we seldom made the right choice and even now in recovery it is still a learning process.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.

God created us to live in loving relationship with Him.

When we confess the exact nature of our wrongs, the terrible isolation we've lived with for most of our lives will be exposed.

We are experts at rationalizing – attempting to excuse, minimize, or justify our bad behaviour.