A BLESSING IN DISGUISE
Alcoholics note that they might never have achieved the serenity of sobriety were it not for the ravages of addiction.

LOVE AND DRUGS
When we doubt that we are loved, we question our worth, and are more likely to do self-destructive, self-hating things.

A DIVIDED SELF
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.

THIS TOO SHALL PASS
All times, however, will end. We will go out the doors that we came in, and then we will enter new doors.

LOSING OUR LIFE TO SAVE IT
God promises us a better life if we give up what we know is death in our life.

ROADBLOCKS
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.

ON THE LOOKOUT FOR GRACE
God's power is always stronger than our pain, and what now seems unrelenting will, in time, pass.

HIGHER POWER
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.

STEP BY STEP
We hear so much these days about doing things one step at a time, and it is a good way to live.

STARTING OVER
I die every day! —1 Corinthians 15-31

DEBILITATED BY DENIAL
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 MIRACLE OF SURRENDER
The woman took a drink; the drink took a drink; and the drink took the woman.

POWERLESSNESS
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
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.

WHEN WE STUMBLE AND FALL
What if we stopped trying to do everything right? What if we stopped railing on ourselves when we dropped the ball?

THE GOD-SHAPED HOLE
We are, I believe, born with a need for God. But there is no instruction manual that teaches us about our yearning.

THE SERENITY PRAYER
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.

LIVING IN THE NOW
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.