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Perhaps there’s nothing more important in recovery then to make peace with our past by making things right with those we’ve harmed. That was a daunting task for me, but I’d heard from many who had done so, and they all told me it was a life-changing experience. I...
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Fresh off my amazing experience of surrendering my character defects and asking God to remove them, I was faced with another challenge. I had long cherished the sin of resentment. It had been like a pet tiger that I’d fed, pampered, and hidden away deep in my heart....
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To this day, when it comes to my recovery, there’s nothing easy about surrendering. Everything in me fights it, and whatever I let go of usually has claw marks all over it. So why did I think it would be easy to let go of the character defects I’d clung to for so...
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As a necessary step in my recovery from alcoholism, I shared my first honest self-appraisal with another human being in the presence of God and thought I was home free. I’d somehow mustered the courage to take that important step, but slowly figured out that what I...
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I remember that day well. To put it simply, I was terrified. For the first time in my life, I’d taken an honest look at my character, and now I was getting ready to admit to the deep forms of selfishness that had been the chief activators of my drinking. This process...
