Lies vs. Faith
Why do we lie when in all honesty it would be just as easy to tell the truth? If I’m lying because I’m afraid that telling the truth would threaten our relationship, then what does that tell you about...
View ArticleChanging people, places and things ~~~
You always hear how you must change people, places and things it you want to recover, but I disagree. As a matter of fact, I believe that it falls under the first line of the Serenity prayer. I can’t...
View ArticleRigorous Honesty
I still keep thinking of the question, ‘what’s wrong with character defects’? And again I believe that each of us decides how far we really want to go in recovery. Just how much of our lives do we...
View ArticleMy opinion on character defects and recovery
I received your question about character defects and recovery and although I have written about these things before the questions keep coming so let me try again. And let me thank you for reading and...
View ArticleCurve Balls
Just when you thought you had it mastered ~~~~ you realized you don’t know anything at all. Life sure is interesting isn’t it? We get busy making plans and deciding where our life will go and what is...
View ArticleRigorous? Honesty?
OK – don’t be shocked, but people who struggle with addiction lie — a lot. So the very foundation of recovery is based in rigorous honesty, being painfully honesty without reservation (no...
View ArticleRigorous. Honesty. 2
Answers to the questions in the last paragraph of 1 are: What someone else says or thinks about you shouldn’t matter, but it does. Saying one thing and doing another can cause a business to lose a...
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