Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

This morning I got up determined to go on my full 1 ½ mile walk. Never mind that I haven’t made it further than ¾ of a mile lately. Never mind that I’m still limping along with a broken toe. Never mind that I’m still recovering from a cold. I live in a fantasy world...
Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

God Is the Source

Are you a spontaneous free spirit, who finds God in the moment? Or are you a list maker, who finds recovery in routine and discipline? I am the kind of person that tends far more toward spontaneity and impulse than to routine or discipline. And I tend to think that...
Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

Breaking Free of Codependency

A short and common definition of codependency is fearing others more than God. We could just as easily replace the word fearing with the word believing. Codependency is believing others more than we believe God. For example, we may have troubled, angry, hurting...
Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

Living Charity: A Pure Love for Christ

In our sacramental prayers, we covenant to always remember God. (D&C 20:77, 79) Some people think that to always remember our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ, they would have to go up on a mountaintop, like a guru or shaman. Or perhaps live a monkish...
Step 12: Sharing Our Experience, Strength and Hope

Slips

Slips. Backsliding. Falling off the wagon. Whatever you call them, it happens to all of us. So what do we do when we find we’ve ebbed away from full recovery? We prayerfully acknowledge that we’ve slipped. It’s hard to do, but do it we must. And prayerfully is the...