Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. ~ Joan Chittister Death and dying, illness and injury. Gratitude? Maybe it comes easily for the […]
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Surrender
Stubbornness is ego-driven and fear-based. Perseverance is surrender to my Higher Power and is faith-based. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 1164). Perseverance – steadfastness, sure, dependable, reliable, constant, unwavering. Wouldn’t unwavering be closer to stubbornness, not perseverance? Certainly there’s kinship […]
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…For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (p. 99). AA World Services, Inc. Kindle […]
Continue reading »Action and Response
How does belief become proven? When I offer myself to God to build with me, to do with me/ as he chooses, how do I know he accepts? Moses raised his staff, the sea parted. When the Hebrews couldn’t drink […]
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One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town! ~ Ecclesiastes 7:19 (New Living Translation) Don’t dress that way – people will talk. Don’t say things like that – others won’t approve. The rules of our parents? […]
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