Powerlessness is Our Super-Power There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. — M Scott Peck Our hearts, comrades, like faith, get forged in the fire of powerlessness, and strengthened in the deep well vulnerability. This is a […]
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The mingling of our innate humanity with the spirit deep down within A Spiritual Awakening can be like a rude awakening, sudden, dramatic, unexpected, and life changing. I know folks, especially amongst the sober-booze community, who have experienced these remarkable turnarounds. More often, though, a spiritual wakening is a slow transformation that happens over time,
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“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it has been, I found myself all out of self-sufficiency cards. Literally broke, life in tatters, and spiritually smashed to smithereens. I had a hole in the soul you could drive a truck through.
“Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Recently, the little place I had been renting for many years got sold out from under me. Then, within days, I fell victim to a phone banking scam and all my limited saving disappeared in an instant. The very next day my old
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