by Colleen Harrison | Dec 31, 2012 | abstinence, Change of Heart, Perfectionism
A new year is upon us and many of us are taking inventory and making plans to change. We desire to be better, to do better, so we make long lists of resolutions, detailed itemizations of things we need or want to change in our lives. I think that taking inventory and...
by Colleen Harrison | Oct 18, 2012 | Christ, Recovery
God wants to gift you with a degree of love that only He can give. He will not rest until He has found you, no matter how lost a lamb you think you are (or try to be.) No matter what, He is going to gift you with love and patience and long-suffering and kindness—over...
by Colleen Harrison | Aug 3, 2012 | 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...
by Colleen Harrison | Aug 1, 2012 | abstinence, Change of Heart, Recovery
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...
by Colleen Harrison | Jul 6, 2012 | Christ, Zion
| 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...
