You can’t be too dumb to recover but it’s easy to be too smart. Dumb, insecure, convinced you’re without hope, that you’re a loser, is the perfect frame of reference to listen, to follow the suggestions as though they were […]
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God Can
God can work with even being not ready. ~ Connie H What are you being called to do although you’re worried you’re not Ready? Did someone ask you to fill a service slot that feels like too much, beyond your […]
Continue reading »Recovery Commencement Prayers
I realized God was not going to do for me what I could do for myself. So my biggest prayer became: “God, give me the willingness to abstain, be teachable and work the Steps. God, give me the willingness to […]
Continue reading »The Proper Use of the Will
But now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do. All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs to develop the quality of willingness. When he acquires willingness, he is […]
Continue reading »For the Love of Life
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We […]
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