Meditations on "Truth"

Life has its ups and downs and does not always treat us fairly.

When we pray for God’s will and the power to carry it out, God just doesn’t point to something unfocused in the distance.

Au P AuddEACEFUL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH HUMILITY If we want to experience healthy and joyful relationships with God and with others each day of our lives, we will have to be willing to change our former ways.

Living in addiction is living emotionally unavailable to God, to others, and to ourselves.

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 making decisions in life, God tells us to first seek His counsel and then do what He says is right.

We experience true freedom when we have a clean slate with God.

I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there.

Jesus told the story of two men who went to church to pray.

At some point, in the darkness where we lived, we became aware that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our lives had become unmanageable.

Contentment in life does not come from trying to control someone so they will meet our needs, or by trying to please someone so they will like us and help us feel secure.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.