by Colleen Harrison | Jan 21, 2013 | Keep Coming Back, Mortality, Recovery
Think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be familiar with all… (Jacob 2:17) These words remind me of one of the most healing effects of twelve-step recovery work. Only after entering the program did I begin to see “my brethren” (other people) like unto...
by Colleen Harrison | Jan 2, 2013 | Christ, God's In Charge
The thoughts that are coming to me, flooding through my own journaling and counseling with the Lord this morning, are thoughts about God’s patience and humility—and how long it has taken me to begin to comprehend it. I know I’ve posted about this before, but this is a...
by Colleen Harrison | Nov 27, 2012 | Mortality, Perfectionism
I bear my testimony to you that what we were sent away from our home and the direct association and protection of our Heavenly Parents not to learn that we could stand on our own two feet, but actually, to learn the exact opposite. We came here to be humbled, to be...
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 | Oct 4, 2012 | God's In Charge, Mortality, Recovery
If you were in an intensive care unit, would you want the electrocardiogram to suddenly start producing a straight line? Of course not! As long as that line is going up and down, it means you’re alive. Let the line go straight, with no valleys and no peaks, or in...