Meditations on "Truth"

We started lying a long time ago to cover up and hide from the truth.

Dishonesty is a tool we use to protect ourselves from the shame and guilt we feel when challenging moments arise.

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

In the Bible we read that Jesus was repeatedly sensitive to people and what they were going through, and He reached out to them with mercy and compassion.

Before anyone gives their will and life over to the care of God, the Scriptures tell us they are dead in their trespasses and sins.

Living with God in recovery often presents difficult challenges such as: waiting for something we feel desperately in need of right now; not retaliating with anger when someone offends us; living with less when we could scam our way into having more; and facing the consequences of revealing a difficult truth.

As we remember service men and women who served our nation in times of war and other national troubles, it’s good to be mindful of words from the Bible that prompt us to remember God’s help in our time of need.

Why do people argue? Apparently there are lots of reasons.

When we admitted we were powerless over our dependencies and our lives had become unmanageable we were, in a sense, like the man robbed and beaten in the parable of the good Samaritan.

Self-worth is the value we see in ourselves and our role in life.

Some of us say we have hope in God, but what does that mean?

Tomorrow night many children put on costumes and go door-to-door “trick-or-treating.