Meditations on "Truth"

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

For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.

When we become unsettled in our recovery we often find that we begin to entertain risky thoughts that make us vulnerable to relapse.

We often feel awkward about bringing our recurring sins before God.

I belong; I have worth; I am adequate and/or competent.

We often bring our “street smart” thinking into recovery with us.

We are spiritual beings who have a soul and live in a body.

In our addictive lifestyle we made poor choices and walked paths that caused harm to ourselves and to others.

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

“Principles before personalities” is one of those sayings we hear at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Our former lifestyle of destructive life habits and addiction was harsh and filled with problems.

As we become willing to have God remove our defects of character, we commit to being persons who desire God’s will instead of our own.