Alcoholics note that they might never have achieved the serenity of sobriety were it not for the ravages of addiction.
When we doubt that we are loved, we question our worth, and are more likely to do self-destructive, self-hating things.
When I find my human needs leading me where, at my best, I don’t want to go, that is when I really pray hard.
All times, however, will end. We will go out the doors that we came in, and then we will enter new doors.
God promises us a better life if we give up what we know is death in our life.
Notice how your attention will focus on whatever confirms your beliefs and will block out much that threatens what you believe.
The Courage to Change the Things We Can
When situations occur in our lives that are beyond our control, we can drive ourselves crazy with stress and anxiety when we might be better served to simply smile and look for the good that can come out of them.
God's power is always stronger than our pain, and what now seems unrelenting will, in time, pass.
Neither unworthiness nor self-sufficiency has any power in the life of the one who is unafraid to pray for God's assistance, and receive God’s care.
We hear so much these days about doing things one step at a time, and it is a good way to live.
I die every day! —1 Corinthians 15-31
They were all anxious about what might happen to them, so when they took their places at the table, the tension was palpable. No one was willing to talk about it, though. Maybe it would go away.
The woman took a drink; the drink took a drink; and the drink took the woman.
The truth is, most of us are powerless most of the time, and it’s an illusion to think otherwise.
Letting go and letting God is a difficult little mantra to live by.
The False Self and the True Self
Most of us continue to try to solve problems in our adult life with the same strategies that worked when we were children.
What if we stopped trying to do everything right? What if we stopped railing on ourselves when we dropped the ball?
We are, I believe, born with a need for God. But there is no instruction manual that teaches us about our yearning.
Learning that sometimes things are just as they are, and there is nothing to be done to change them is one of the hardest lessons I've tried to learn in my life.
When we think too much about the past or the future, we can be diverted from living in the present moment and miss something very important.
When people hurt us, betray us, demean us, commit evil against us, we want vengeance.
Under the cover of silence we carry within us the indiscretions, failures, betrayals, and sins that we have committed throughout the course of our lives.
He will not let your foot be moved, I said to myself as we started down, which was even scarier than going up. But somehow I believed what I was saying and my body responded.
