by Colleen Harrison | Dec 10, 2012 | Personal Revelation, Twelve Steps, writing
We’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...
by Colleen Harrison | Nov 26, 2012 | God's In Charge, Led by Spirit, Personal Revelation
“. . . And this they said he had done because of the foolish imaginations of his heart.” (1 Nephi 2:11) As you increase in recovery, you learn to depend more and more upon God to lead you—day to day, and sometimes even minute to minute. If and when you...
by Colleen Harrison | Oct 5, 2012 | God's In Charge, Personal Revelation, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Today, 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...
by Colleen Harrison | Sep 24, 2012 | Change of Heart, Personal Revelation
This evening, as I went to bed, I felt reluctant to kneel, and I expressed that reluctance to the Lord, rather than hiding it (and myself) from Him. I immediately felt His reassurance that He still loves me and is willing to receive my prayers, no matter what posture...
by Colleen Harrison | Sep 21, 2012 | Personal Revelation
Nothing 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...
by Colleen Harrison | Sep 19, 2012 | Change of Heart, God's In Charge, Led by Spirit, Personal Revelation
Time trips me up. I’m constantly tempted to fear that my change of heart is taking too much time. That I’m not healing fast enough. That I’ll get to the end of my life and I won’t have progressed enough along the path of salvation. But then I remember that...
