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....

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...

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...