I was grown before I began to wonder about faith, to look at the church, to ask questions. But I was curious and I kept on. I went to an old man, a minister, but retired, one foot in the […]
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Like Car Keys
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you […]
Continue reading »Patience and Diligence
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.~ William Penn How do you decide to have faith? Is it not a gift? How do you ask for it? Well, that’s not really the question, is it? How do you decide to […]
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I prayed for God to keep me from eating my binge foods. I ate food that had fallen into the trash. I ate food that I knew was addictive. Then came the realization: I was not willing. ~ Voices of Recovery […]
Continue reading »Let Me Pray
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you must ask to attend to them. ~ Dag Hammarskjold The words “Let us pray” are more familiar, more comfortable…at least to me…than […]
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