One day as we discussed a difficult relationship problem, my sponsor said, “If you’re doing it to please him, you’re back in your disease.” ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 784-785). Okay. Her health professional says bottled water. Her husband says tap water. […]
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Guilt and God
Raised in the church? A lot of us were. Some of us are still involved in the church of our childhood. Others have changed… congregations, denominations, even to a different faith. And those outside the rooms of recovery share these […]
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The regrets, shoulds, ought tos over time accrue and aggregate, solidify and petrify, expand… harden. And as they accumulate, debris sticking, adhering, these emotions harden hearts as well. Minds avoid guilt, shoving it away, hurling it toward bit players on the scene, […]
Continue reading »Be Empty to Become Filled
…if you want abundance, knowledge, health, love, and all the other attributes that personify the Tao, you need to be receptive to them. Lao-tzu instructs that you must be empty in order to become filled, for attachments keep you so […]
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right. ~ Abraham Lincoln It’s our fight, so we choose the team, for surely nobody knows […]
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