11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. ~ Step 11 How do you reclaim […]
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Simple Enough
Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. ~ 1 John 5:21 New Living Translation (NLT) Paul gave a list in Romans, things which could possibly edge out God from hearts. Death and life seem contenders, […]
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The world is coming to an end. At least my world is. My town is destroyed, I cannot find my family. The dog is dead. My house is ashes. My insanity was coming back. I learned there was a meeting […]
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I know many words, useful tools they are. This one discovered today intrigues, inspires. Irreducible. Impossible to transform into or restore to a desired or simpler condition. Bare bones, essence, quintessence. The root, the core. Our commitment to abstinence first […]
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When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crises we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn’t. What was […]
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