We make mistakes, but sin requires deliberate trespass against a law set by an authority and held by community. God asks us to repent. Do not intensify what God simply erases. ~ Jo Helen Cox What God erases. Like a […]
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The Omission
She sat there with her sponsor, an empty chair triangled. For God, the sponsor said. Hours passed as resentment followed anger, as shame emerged, as a life of anger paraded in their midst. She came willing to tell it all, […]
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It’s nobody’s business but mine. I’ll go to my grave with this secret and even with truth serum, with torture, with pleading, with sleep deprivation, you can’t make me tell. That includes your silly Steps. “Admitted to God, to ourselves, […]
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