Post by lildee on Dec 30, 2004 2:58:14 GMT -5
Touchstones
When we are reduced to our last extreme, there is no further evasion. The choice is a terrible one. It is made in the heart of darkness. .. when we who have been destroyed and seem to be in hell miraculously choose God! -Thomas Merton
There are many ways we benefit from a life crisis. Perhaps none of us could achieve true adult maturity-or a relationship with God-without having the foundations of our lives shaken. One of our pathways to crisis was the willful pursuit of control in our codependent and addictive lives. Our lifestyles were extreme, the consequences were extreme, and our surrender had to be absolute.
Most of us are surprised by how our weaknesses can turn to strengths. When our defiant wills led us to the utter bottom of our despair, we finally turned to a Power greater than ourselves and found a new way to live. This spiritual story is told in endless variations in our meetings, and it is renewed in small ways every day in each of our lives.
God, lift my defiant willfulness from me and renew my day.
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When we are reduced to our last extreme, there is no further evasion. The choice is a terrible one. It is made in the heart of darkness. .. when we who have been destroyed and seem to be in hell miraculously choose God! -Thomas Merton
There are many ways we benefit from a life crisis. Perhaps none of us could achieve true adult maturity-or a relationship with God-without having the foundations of our lives shaken. One of our pathways to crisis was the willful pursuit of control in our codependent and addictive lives. Our lifestyles were extreme, the consequences were extreme, and our surrender had to be absolute.
Most of us are surprised by how our weaknesses can turn to strengths. When our defiant wills led us to the utter bottom of our despair, we finally turned to a Power greater than ourselves and found a new way to live. This spiritual story is told in endless variations in our meetings, and it is renewed in small ways every day in each of our lives.
God, lift my defiant willfulness from me and renew my day.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.