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Neither side needs to accuse or defend, but just state the facts as we remember them, and be open to hear what the other needed, heard, or felt.
Alcoholism is deeply frustrated desire,
Fortunately, God reveals our sins to us gradually so we can absorb what we have done over time.
It is such divine synergy, people’s willingness to creatively work with the hand that life and sin and circumstance and God have dealt them that is our deepest life of prayer and devotion. This is “doing the will of God”!
Spiritual desire is the drive that God put in us from the beginning, for total satisfaction, for home, for heaven, for divine union, and it just got displaced onto the wrong object.
Addiction is a modern name and honest description for what the biblical tradition called “sin,” and medieval Christians called “passions” or “attachments.”
ego (read “false self”
God will show you the best way, the best place, the best time, and the best words. Wait and pray for them all.
face-to-face encounters, although usually difficult after a hurt, that do the most good in the long run, even if the other party rebuffs you at the first attempt. You opened the door from your side, and it thus remains open, unless you reclose it.
Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can “save” suffering people, Those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.