…a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Every time he tries to look within himself, Pride says, “You need not pass this way,” and Fear says, […]
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Practice Peacefulness
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:6-7 I’ve never been to a Catholic mass except a wedding ceremony in the late1970’s but I know […]
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You think you hold against your brother what he has done to you. But what you really blame him for is what you did to him. It is not his past but yours you hold against him. And you lack […]
Continue reading »Change Shame to Guilt
Greg said some very kind things when I told him. …I [had] watched him overcome Groundhog Day… He said turn the shame to guilt. It’s the same emotion really. Guilt is more easily managed. We tend to have more control […]
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We blame our circumstances on others. We were not at fault. The world was against us. Then we found our way into these rooms, the Rooms of Recovery. We wanted what we saw, and we started doing what they said […]
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