When we early A.A.’s got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: “Don’t try to be a saint by Thursday!” ~ AA World Services Inc. As Bill Sees It . A.A. World Services, Inc. […]
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Willing to Want Better
Being willing to want a better way, then being willing to ask for one, promises us that we’ll be shown one when the time is right. ~ Casey, Karen. Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course (Hazelden Meditations) . Hazelden Publishing. Kindle […]
Continue reading »Willingness = Courage
I groggily said the serenity prayer in my head as I tried to motivate me out of bed this morning, and the words kept getting tangled. I knew “willingness” wasn’t in there, but I kept trying to shove it in. […]
Continue reading »Easy In Your Harness
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. ~ Robert Frost At a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous we read in Voices of Recovery, “I have always felt apart from the human race. I felt I had to be better than […]
Continue reading »God’s Hands
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone […]
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