A solid program of recovery includes consistent fellowship with others in recovery. Shared messages of experience, strength and hope makes both the speaker and the listener stronger. It bolsters commitment to a recovered way of life. But sometimes, you just can’t get to a meeting. Or you’ve called your sponsors* and no one is available. […]
Read More fellowshipWhat is Free Step Friday (#freestepfriday)? Click here for details. Scripture: Jacob 4:10—Seek not to counsel the Lord. When we finally surrender our lives and our will to God, we begin to pray in a whole new way. Our prayers begin to have less emphasis on what we want, and more emphasis on what would […]
Read More conscious contact, FreeStepFriday, journaling, prayer, scripture study, twelve stepWhat is Free Step Friday (#freestepfriday)? Click here for details. Scripture: Omni 1:26—Offer your whole souls as an offering unto him. How much plainer can it be stated? Our whole soul—body and spirit. This is the ultimate act of consecration. It is to come full circle back to God and offer to Him all that […]
Read More FreeStepFriday, journaling, scripture study, trust, twelve stepWhat is Free Step Friday (#freestepfriday)? Click here for details. Scripture Mosiah 27:29—My soul hath been redeemed from the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity. I was in the darkest abyss;…My soul was racked with eternal torment. Gall of bitterness? Bonds of iniquity? Darkest abyss? Racked with eternal torment? Have you ever heard a […]
Read More scripture study, twelve step, writingIf you have a copy of the 20th Anniversary Edition of He Did Deliver Me from Bondage, you may have noticed and wondered about some of the quotes in the margins, cited as Patterns of Light I and Patterns of Light II. That was a teaser hinting at two new books! Here at Hearthaven Publishing, […]
Read More FreeStepFriday, journaling, scripture study, twelve step“I should write upon these plates a few of the things which I considered to be most precious…” (Jacob 1:2) Once again, I must testify of how important writing can be in our on-going journey of recovery. There has never come a time when writing hasn’t been beneficial to my recovery. Often, it has been […]
Read More journaling, little bit, writingAnd now, if the Lord has such great power, and has wrought so many miracles among the children of men, how is it that he cannot instruct me, that I should build a ship. (1 Nephi 17:51) This verse just looks like it’s about ship-building. It’s not. It’s about how a person with absolutely no […]
Read More delivery, faith, journaling, personal revelation, scripture study, spiritual life, trust, writingAs I knelt down this morning to offer my formal “opening prayer” for the day, I automatically (after 20 years of daily repetition) reached for my pen and notepad. I had to smile as the recognition whispered through my mind: “This is how it all began.” And it is so true. It began with my […]
Read More conscious contact, journaling, personal revelation, writingWe’re all different, and I can’t tell anyone else’s story or anyone else’s truth, but I am blessed to come here and have a place to tell mine. This is my truth—the truth that it has taken me many years in recovery to finally believe: Conscious contact with God is the only thing that turns […]
Read More conscious contact, journaling, personal revelation, ponder, truth, twelve step, writingMy abstinence has changed a lot over the years. What and how and when I eat now is nothing compared to what and how and when I ate 25 years ago. If I had met my current self then, I would have been so impressed with me. The kind of abstinence I have now would […]
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