Meditations on "Relationship"

Making amends is a responsibility we must take very seriously if we want to protect our sobriety.

God’s heart is for us to enjoy loving and caring relationships with others.

To allow God to remove all our defects of character is asking Him to take away everything that hinders our ability to live life to the full.

Step Six: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

When we entered a recovery program we may have looked around at the program staff and wondered why on earth they would choose to help us.

God invites us to joy and peace, to forgiveness and to loving relationship.

Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

The basic questions to ask when making a searching and fearless moral inventory are, "God what does my life look like to you?

What is the challenge for us as we reflect on making a searching, fearless, and moral inventory based on God’s way of life as revealed to us in the Bible?

As we come into recovery programs we listen to and are supported by the experience, strength, and hope that others share.

Step Two: Came to believe that a power greater that ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step One: We admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies, that our life had become unmanageable.