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What a Great Way to Start the New Year!

Addiction, Keep Coming Back, Led by Spirit, Recovery

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...

Irrational Kindness

Christ, Recovery

God 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...

God Is Irrationally Kind

Christ, Recovery

Recently 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...

With the Faith of a Prodigal

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...

Nothing Else Will Suffice

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...