I stayed up pretty late, last night—well, this morning. Only then did I remember that this morning was a Tuesday mornin—my morning to serve as facilitator for the Heart t’ Heart online meeting at 6:30 a.m. (Mountain Time). I am so grateful that I had the chance (and the excuse) to be at that meeting. […]
Read More abstinence, challenges, delivery, faith, little bit, prodigal, recovery, trustGod is irrationally kind by the ways of man. His ways are higher than our ways. His kindness is infinite. It can afford to be. Where He dwells and where we came from–and where we will eventually return –there is no limit to time. There is no limit to mercy and love. It is true […]
Read More atonement, Christ, faith, grace, hope, peace, prodigal, recovery, repentanceRecently I was reading the parable of the workers who come late to the field and yet the Lord pays them the same as those who came earlier. (See Matthew 20.) As I read, I saw how similar to the story of the prodigal son (in Luke 15) this story of the laborers in the […]
Read More hope, justice, kindness, love, mercy, peace, prodigal, repentance, serenityToday, I can say and truly mean it (and not take it back quite so fast), “Thy will, O Lord, not mine be done” (Jacob 7:14). Why? Because today I trust Him. Why? Because today I know Him. I have ceased to be like the good son in the Master’s parable, working in my Father’s […]
Read More faith, humility, love, peace, prodigal, trust, twelve stepNothing will suffice or satisfy the longing that always simmers at the core of our souls like having a personal experience of God’s reality. Nothing. Not family. Not church service. Not anything. What is that longing and yearning that we seek to numb with the use of our addictions? It is a hard-wired desire for […]
Read More Christ, humility, mighty change, prodigal, repentanceI have always thought of myself as a “good son”—well, daughter, actually, but you know what I mean. I went to church every Sunday, attended the temple, paid my tithing, fulfilled my callings. I’ve done a lifetime of good works, of “good son” activities. But none of that conveyed to me the love of God. […]
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