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hate...for although the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not.”
God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it.
grace. It is God’s greatest surprise and God’s constant disguise,
Self will
even your whole family, pay the price for your own aggression and self-assertion
“Unless the grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it will yield a rich harvest” (John 12:24).
The soul does not attach nor does it hate; it desires and loves and lets go. Please think about that, it can change your very notion of religion.
“Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.”
the mind space open, we need some form of contemplative or meditation practice.
tends to be “all or nothing thinking.”2
The body is like the ignored middle child in a family unit, and so now it is having its revenge through so much compulsive eating, sexuality, anorexia, and addiction, plus a wholesale disregard for the physical planet, animals, water, and healthy foods.5
this step, although not commonly followed, is thoroughly biblical.
we have to work to see our many resistances, excuses, and blockages, but then we have to fully acknowledge that God alone can do the “removing”!
get out of the way
all true spirituality has a paradoxical character to it,
Jesus
God
Mary
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let God do the job!
to fully understand is always to stand under
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
pray as if it all depends on us, and work as if it all depends on God
Grace will always favor the prepared
mind.
God is humble and never comes if not first invited, but God will find some clev...
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change ourselves.
pray to form a living relationship,
(1) reveal your real faults to you
addiction uses up our spiritual desire.
to ask “for your daily bread” is to know that it is being given.
You must step back
“original participation”
soulful level of everything—trees,
moral inventory,
“personal inventory.”
Don’t judge, just look
inherent dignity
Once we doubt
we will slip into addiction and the unconscious,
That is why we must, absolutely must, love!
