Meditations on "Surrender"

Everyone faces unwanted hardships and trouble. Some hardship comes because we act in ways that are unwise and end up in circumstances we did not anticipate.

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

Many of us have questioned God about the purpose for our existence and the reason why certain things have happened to us.

“Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point.

When we turn our will and our life over to the care of God, He immediately begins to work to help us change.

We got to where we are today by our own irrational thinking and flawed solutions.

Jesus told many stories of what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.

When we pray the full version of the Serenity Prayer, what are we asking God to do for us?

Sometimes we have a blind spot to our wrong doing. We have lived and relied on our own understanding for years and now it has become a way of life that we find no fault with.

The Bible tells us that on the third day of creation God spoke and vegetation was created on the earth.

What does it mean to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings?

The Big Book of AA describes the significance of our problem with selfishness in this way: "There often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His [God's] aid.