When you are driving and realize you are hopelessly lost, the absolute worst thing you can do is press harder on the gas pedal. Yet, that is exactly what human pride tells us to do. To find your way back, you have to do something uncomfortable: you have to pull over, admit you don’t know where you are, and look at the map. In our active addiction, we spent years driving at top speed in the wrong direction, terrified of how far off course we had drifted. Recovery demands that we finally pull over. We are invited to honestly examine our ways and test them. We look closely at our motives, our resentments, our financial choices, and our fears to see exactly where we took a wrong turn. We don’t examine our flaws to stay stuck in guilt, and God doesn’t ask us to look at our mistakes to shame us. We examine them so we can correct our course and find our way back to His peace. | 
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