We surrender our lives to God and ask Him for help. When He knows that we’re ready, He gives us by His grace the free gift of sobriety. And we can’t take any credit for having stopped drinking, because we […]
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An Unknown God
So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found […]
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There is a general tendency of our mental apparatus…it seems to find expression in the tenacity with which we hold on to the sources of pleasure at our disposal, and in the difficulty with which we renounce them. ~ Sigmund […]
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In the process of affective redemption, desire is not suppressed or destroyed, but gradually transferred, purified, transformed, set on fire. We go through the struggles and ambiguities of human desire to integration and personal wholeness. ~ Constance FitzGerald We have […]
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Daddy was the man of the house… not just the adult male but the male among the six of us. And he was a wonder. He had left in 1942 to go overseas, a second lieutenant. He came back and […]
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