Colleen Harrison | Hearthaven Publishing

Becoming One with Christ

When you become one with Jesus Christ, you become the highest and most Christ-like version of yourself that you could ever imagine. How do we become one with Christ? By trying to be like Him? No. We’re not talking about “trying to be like.” By trying to emulate Him?...

Addiction or Atonement—There Are Only Two Choices

Addiction, Christ, Mortality, Recovery

When you boil life down to the basics, you only have two choices for dealing with the discomforts of mortality. Either you choose addiction to dull the pain or you choose the peace of God and live (Alma 37:47). You can choose to become and/or remain an addict to...

Keeping the Twelve Steps of Recovery Focused on Christ (Part 5)

Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 An Open Letter to My Fellow Mortals, Caught in Addiction or not: May I conclude by sharing with you the text of a letter originally composed and shared with a fellow mortal concerning your true nature—what you were...

Keeping the Twelve Steps of Recovery Focused on Christ (Part 4)

Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Looking to Jesus to Live = Miraculously Doing Right On days that I humble myself in these twelve ways, and do my best to look to Jesus to live, I find myself miraculously doing right, doing well, without striving to do...

Keeping the Twelve Steps of Recovery Focused on Christ (Part 3)

Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Being Consumed in Christ In the Ensign, July 1989, President Ezra Taft Benson, published a First Presidency Message entitled Born of God. We are told that First Presidency Messages should hold the weight of scripture to us....