| Read Part 1 | | Read Part 2 | Imagine my surprise when Christ turned my thoughts and my heart back to the Twelve-Step principles that He had led me to use several years before to overcome my compulsive need to hurt myself with food. Under the tutelage of His own Spirit, conveyed to […]
Read More atonement, challenges, Christ, delivery, humility, twelve step| Read Part 1 | Somehow, as I have sat through all those church meetings, I became confused, thinking that spiritual self-reliance was as necessary and positive as temporal self-reliance. One of the most shameful situations I could be caught in, as a Latter-day Saint, according to my perception of the messages I heard, was […]
Read More abuse, atonement, challenges, grace, humility, ZionA few days ago, during my early morning scripture study, I came across these words in Isaiah: “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness . . . (Isaiah 61:3) And these words […]
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