IT IS THE TIME OF THE WHIRLWIND. IF YOU TURN TO SILENT, EMPTY, FALSE GODS, THAT HAVE NO LIFE, YOU WILL HEAR NO ANSWERS. THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION—YOUR DESPAIR ONLY DEEPENS. THE PIT FEELS DEEPER. I feel the testimony of Christ, of the Truth: The time has passed when I can turn to lesser gods, […]
A Parable of Atonement
In response to many requests for easy access to the section of Principle/Step Eight in He Did Deliver Me from Bondage, entitled, “The Parable,” I am posting it here and linking it to my Facebook page. Please feel free to share it wherever the Spirit moves you to do so. I’d love it if you […]
Keyboard or Pen?
When I journal, I keep skipping back and forth between wanting to use a pen and wanting to use this keyboard. I can certainly write faster on the keyboard, but not with as much expression. It is a constant struggle in me. I want to let go of the struggle. What is the root of […]
Why Do I Resist?
1 Nephi 17:41 “He prepared a way that they might be healed; and the labor which they had to perform was to look, and because of the simpleness of the way, or the easiness of it, there were many who perished.” As I was working on the manuscript for Patterns of Light, Step 7, this […]
Beyond Food Addiction
In 1991 I wrote a book entitled He Did Deliver Me from Bondage.* I originally wrote it with the intention (assignment from the Spirit of the Lord) to demonstrate how the principles in the Twelve Steps could be used to bring a person, one step at a time, down into the depths of humility and […]
My Covenant with Christ
The Father having raised me up unto you first, and sent me to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities; and this because ye are children of the covenant— (3 Nephi 20:26) I have seen so many people suffering from addiction who feel like they must be the scum of […]
Write What You Hear
Good writing is at its very best when it is full of sensory words that let our reader see and hear and smell and feel on their skin what we, or our characters, are feeling. Some time ago, I took a great class that required this exercise: Write what you hear. First, write a “bullet list” of […]
Imperfection is Inevitable
What I am learning in my late 60s about growing older: Aging is an unavoidable slide into more and more imperfect functioning. Aging requires us to let go of imperfect function and go on with living. We must forgive imperfection—and go on. Go on seeking Christ and His Spirit. Whether imperfect functioning comes because of […]
My Voice Without Fear
What does my REAL voice sound like? My real voice is whatever I REALLY feel without fear. It’s what I say when I speak without fear of anyone or anything. That is my real voice, when I sing out my heart like the songbird that sings simply because it is— without fear, without hesitancy. Singing at […]
Letting God Flip the Switch
And now, my beloved brethren, I would that ye should come unto Christ,… Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him… (Omni 1:26) Here, in this verse, is the entire answer to freedom from compulsive behavior for me. This is the whole solution to changing my heart. My heart […]
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