Photo by Liza Summer on Pexels.com Step Nine - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. This is a tricky step and one that must be handled with care and patience. We may not be in as much hot water with our loved ones... Continue Reading →
Photo by picjumbo.com on Pexels.com Step Eight - Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all Had this been an earlier step in our process, we might not have been able to accomplish it, or even grasp it well enough to begin. We receive healing... Continue Reading →
Am I doing God's will or am I doing my will? How do I know the difference?
Humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings. Step 7 of Twelve Step.
Photo by Julia Larson on Pexels.com Step Six – Were Entirely Ready to Have God Remove All These Defects of Character In our heart and mind, we become ready to let God do what we could not do on our own; remove the character defects. After listing our inventory and reading it in the presence... Continue Reading →
Heaven Can Wait is a funny and entertaining story about a football player who is taken out of his body before his time.
Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com Step Five – Admitted to Ourselves, to God, and to Another Human Being the Exact Nature of Our Wrongs There is tremendous healing that occurs in Step Five. As we share our inventory list with another person, we strip ourselves bare of the things that have been hidden within... Continue Reading →
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Step Four – Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves In Step Four we dig into past events to get at the root of what made and is keeping us, sick. We received a lot of early programming from before birth to about six years old, and we... Continue Reading →
Photo by Kourtney Gundersen on Pexels.com Step Three: Made a Decision to Turn Our Will and Our Lives Over to the Care of God As We Understood Him In Step Three, we make the decision to turn everything over to God. We realize that the more we try to control people, places, and circumstances, the... Continue Reading →
Photo by Jessica Lewis Creative on Pexels.com I was directing my third-grade class at church yesterday evening. The lesson was about David’s food as a young man in King Nebuchadnezzar’s palace (Daniel 2). The kids had a print of an empty plate and I let them draw whatever food or thing that they wanted. When... Continue Reading →
