Meditations on "Truth"

God is always with me. I need never face my problems alone.

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

How are we to deal with a person who falsely accuses us of something we did not do?

Feelings cannot always be trusted. They often point us to an incorrect perception of who we are, who God is, and what is happening in our circumstances.

Relationship difficulties may have impacted our lives from the time we were very young children.

We may not see what goes on inside us, but the Bible tells us there is a battle going on for control of our minds.

Even though we usually associate individuals living in addiction as “party people” the truth is that using substances almost always takes away from our ability to relate to other people, to form friendships, and to do meaningful things with them.

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 not always the best judge of what confidences need to be held or which need to be disclosed.

Steadily moving forward in recovery is not easy. As we awaken out of the haze of years in addiction our minds are often filled with memories of things done to us and things we have done to others.

Persons like us, who have been living in an addictive lifestyle, seldom consider what is happening in the lives of our family or friends.

When guard rails are erected, they are put there to protect people from the danger that is on the other side of the rail or rails.