The first thing I have to remember is that my unhealthy eating is an addiction and not just a bad habit that I can get under control. You can tell your bad habit has morphed into an addiction when you try and try and try (for weeks, months and even years if you’re as stubborn […]
My Life in Light of the Book of Mormon
One day, many years ago, after my recovery had begun, I was reading the Book of Mormon and came to these words in Jacob 1:4: And if there were preaching which was sacred, or revelation which was great, or prophesying, that I should engraven the heads of them upon these plates, and touch upon them […]
Drunken, and Not with Wine
This morning, as I sit down to write today’s entry for this blog, I see in “hindsight,” as they call it, just what good might be coming from having “gone off the deep end” over the last four days. I can see that in this condition, I can write to you out of the midst […]
Learning from One of the Best
Over the last few days I have read Linda Joy Myers memoir, Don’t Call Me Mother. It has been such a beneficial experience for me–a blessing from God, with intent behind it. The blessing has been to see several different techniques used and not just expounded about. Those techniques are: • alternating happier and sadder […]
Another Trip Around the Mulberry Bush
Wow! What a trip around the proverbial “mulberry bush” I take every time I get caught up in yet one more vain attempt to manage my eating of unhealthy carbohydrate foods. That, for me, is the EXACT equivalent of an alcoholic trying to manage his alcohol consumption. I think the phrase “vain attempt” fits really […]
What is Essential to Recovery
. . . having been born of goodly parents I, too, have been born of goodly parents–even GODLY Parents–a Father and Mother in Heaven. I too, was taught in all the learning of my Father (and Mother) while I was there. I have seen many afflictions in the course of my mortal life, but I […]
Willing to Be Free
Wanting and willing are two different things. Wanting is stomping up and down, demanding, insisting. Wanting is pouting, whining, wallowing in self-will and self-pity. I can want to be free, but still not be willing to do anything to cooperate with my want. In other words, I can pray and I can plead and I […]
An Honest Look at the Past, Present and Future
All the forms of personal life writing listed in an earlier post have one thing in common. They help you get in touch with things that you need to be honest about and confront things you’re using up your psychic energy to avoid. This is equally true, whether those things are in your past, in […]
A Great Knowledge of God’s Goodness
Coming to Know the Goodness of God. In the light of 12-step guided scripture study, I began to realize that in spite of all my outward professions of belief in God over my lifetime, I had serious doubts about His goodness. As I have recovered a closer consciousness of God since coming into recovery, I […]
Do You Really Desire to Believe?
YOU TRY TO BELIEVE, BUT DO YOU REALLY DESIRE TO BELIEVE? In Alma 32:27 we are taught that desire is the power behind belief, that it is the foundation upon which belief rests. I have found that it is possible for me to give “lip-service” to believing that the Savior can deliver me from my […]