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...
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...
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...
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....
Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Seeing Each Step as Testimony of My Need to Anchor My Life in Christ Not long after beginning to study the Book of Mormon to discover if the principles in the Twelve Steps were found there, I began to see that every step...
Addiction, Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Many years ago, I read for the very first time, the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith, [Latter-day Saints] should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up. (Teachings of the Prophet...
