Grace Given Freely – Dec. 12, 2019
“God resists our evil and conquers it with good, or how could God ask the same of us?! Think about that. God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or […]
The First Step to Healing – Dec. 11, 2019
“As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.” –Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Our Addiction to the Culture – Dec. 10, 2019
“All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them. There are shared and agreed-upon addictions in every culture and every institution. These are often the hardest to heal because they do not look like addictions because we have all agreed to be compulsive about the same things and blind to the same […]
The Road to Transformation – Dec. 9, 2019
The quotes this week come from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr lifts up the gospel values and transformative wisdom in the 12 Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. As the season of Advent calls us to “prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths,” I find here […]