More Is on the Way
Surrender to the pain. Then learn to surrender to the good. It’s there and more is on the way. Love God. Love Family. Love what you do. Love people, and…
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Forward on our Journey
Wouldn’t it be easier to skip this whole business? If we can’t hang on to our desires, wouldn’t it be simpler not to acknowledge them in the first place? Probably. …
God Catches Our Balloons
When my children were young, they loved brightly colored helium balloons. But sometimes either accidentally or purposely, they’d let go of the string. There they’d stand, with tears in their…
Willingness and Trust
Surrendering and letting go are about willingness and trust. They’re about having enough faith to want something so much that we can taste it; then deliberately letting go of our…
Surrendering
What is surrendering? What does it mean to “let go”? Surrendering is accepting; letting go is releasing. Surrendering is acknowledging the authority of a Higher Power; letting go is trusting…
Believe in Recovery
Some days, we may do particularly well. We may assertively refuse someone’s invitation to be codependent. We may deal well with a particular conflict or feeling. We may have a…
Letting Go of Control
To be intimate or close, we have to let go, for the moment, of our need to control. Controlling and caretaking prevent intimacy and closeness. They are substitutes for, and…
The Child Inside
For that delightful, exuberant, lovable child in us to come out and play and show his or her beautiful face in moments of intimacy and closeness, that child first has…
Relationship Failure?
Perhaps the greatest relationship failure we can have is invalidating our relationship history or present circumstances by becoming cynical, hopeless, embittered, or ashamed. Our histories aren’t a mistake. Our present…
Good Enough
I made a decision that day. I was here, I was me, and I was enough in spite of my past, my present, my future, my weaknesses, my foibles, my…