“You can’t pray a lie — I found that out.” ~ Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn No Addiction Without Lies, No Recovery Without Truth. In 12-Step Recovery, the standard isn’t occasional honesty or attempted honesty, but rigorous honesty. […]
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Be Still and Know
You can rest in the faith that God will take care of you. Try to rest in God’s presence until His life-power flows through you. Be still and in that stillness the still, small Voice will come. It speaks in […]
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Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement. It is the one complete concept possible in this world, because it is the source of […]
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“How is it that you have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor? How can you roll with a punch like that?” “Well,” replied the yearling, “each of us in A.A. has already had his own private Pearl Harbor. So why […]
Continue reading »Hearing the Right Inner Voice
The ego can sound very wise. It has practiced its art for as many years as we have been alive. But its advice is always meant to keep us hostage to it. We’re not well served by the ego. The […]
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