Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere. If you are fearful, or worried, or tired, or discouraged, or hurried, or disappointed, or in pain, God is your sure remedy—so pray. ~ Fox, Emmet. Find and Use Your […]
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When Do You Start?
If you had a thorn in your foot, would you decide not to extract until New Year, or National Pulling Thorns out of Feet Day? If you were 20, would you wait until you were 40 before you extracted that […]
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Although I had studied Christian theology in school, I had kept it at an intellectual distance. Now I felt the threat of a more personal significance. ~ Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love. Harper-Collins W-Books I was raised in the […]
Continue reading »Recovery Commencement Prayers
I realized God was not going to do for me what I could do for myself. So my biggest prayer became: “God, give me the willingness to abstain, be teachable and work the Steps. God, give me the willingness to […]
Continue reading »A Halo or a Noose?
As musician Dan McKinnon put it, “It takes only a short fall for a halo to become a noose.” ~ Cohen, Alan. A Course in Miracles Made Easy (p. 60). Hay House. Kindle Edition. Songfacts.com says, “This is about what drugs […]
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