PERSONAL/SHARING AT THE ONLINE MEETING October 1, 2005 (Note the date. This is the text of a share I posted at the Heart t’ Heart online phone meeting on this day.) Hi. Colleen, here. Grateful to be here. Grateful for your friendship and fellowship in recovery. Grateful for the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus […]
Enduring in Christ
What motivates humans to change? Where do they get the power to change? Some motivational speakers say that you, yourself, have the power within you, and that is all you need to believe in, focus on and repeat to yourself. And that seems to work for some people. Then there are other people who can’t […]
Eternal Human Development
Dear Friend, You might think that I’ve forgotten our line of conversation about coming unto our Savior and beginning to experience and even retain more and more consistently a sense of His peace–that peace that passeth understanding (Philippians 4:7), (in other words, that peace that makes no sense because it is with us even in […]
A Serious Study of the Book of Mormon Pt 4
Owning the Truth About My Childhood: “. . . having been born of goodly parents, . . .” Before I began to get rigorously honest about my very challenging childhood and allowed myself to grieve the deficits and losses I experienced in it, I was “put off” by Nephi from the second he introduced himself […]
Awakening to a Serious Study of the Book of Mormon (pt 2)
Finding the Headlines, Applying Them to My Own Story One day, as I was correlating the teachings of the Book of Mormon with the principles in the Twelve Step program of recovery, checking the steps against the most correct book ever written, with the hope growing in my heart that there could someday be an […]
Telling Myself the Truth
For me, there’s no better way to promote a clear, sane mind than writing prayerful, scripture-guided morning pages. Nothing. Whether you type them or hand-write them. I find that most mornings, handwriting my morning pages works well for me. It feels good to scrawl across the page in whatever mood my whole soul (body and […]
When No Offense Is Meant
Good morning! Hope you are having an insight-full day. In other words, hope the light is as bright and clear inside as it is outside on this cloudless summer morning. As I posted a few days ago, I’ve been reviewing my journal entries of 2002. Doing this review work is by far the most exciting […]
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 […]