As I write this week’s column, I’m thinking about author Jennifer Lash, who died of breast cancer in 1986. She was a British author of several books, including a little-known spiritual memoir On Pilgrimage. (Lash was also the mother of Harry Potter actor Ralph Fiennes.) On Pilgrimage follows Lash, newly diagnosed with the cancer that [...]
I’m grateful that I found a program in a 12 step recovery fellowship that shows me how to stay clean and sober. I’m grateful that my program has shown me the way to faith in a Higher Power, because the renewing of that faith has changed my way of life. And I’ve found happiness and [...]
After being clean and sober for a little while and having worked all 12 steps, in order and with a sponsor, I found it time to really focus on living this thing in my life. I wanted the program of recovery to live in and through my very being, as deep into my soul as [...]
The eleventh step suggests that I ought to seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, as I understand Him, praying only for the knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that out. The first thing I thought was what in the world is Gods will for [...]
Most of us aren’t automatically confident about our spiritual lives. We struggle, we fight, we fall down, we’re wonderstruck, we’re amazed, we fall again. How can we keep our spiritual balance about our individual life plans? One way is by looking at animals. Love Yourself With Joy: When my beagle died last year, she went [...]
God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us by Bishop Carlton Pearson poses a wonderful premise – that God loves us and is around us, no matter what religious beliefs we hold. “The old version of God is obsolete and irrelevant and we [...]
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