Steps To Hope
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Covers articles to cope with dependency and failure through the beatitudes and Twelve-Step programs. Joyce M Shutt shares articles full of daily truths and meditations based on Jesus' beatitudes.
Steps To Hope
1y ago
With Christmas in the air, I am focusing on gratitude as this will be my first Christmas without my partner. Gratitude, you see, is good for my mental health. It’s good for my shattered soul. It’s keeping me ph ..read more
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1y ago
Sun streaming through the bedroom window called me awake this morning. Not ready to get up, I snuggled deeper into my bed and began listing all the little things welcoming me into this new day. The feel of crisp cl ..read more
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1y ago
I’ve been reading The Book Thief. It reminds me that some things about us humans never change – our bent toward cruelty, selfishness, greed, fear, and violence, for instance. I’ve been sewing recently, listeni ..read more
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1y ago
As my birthdays pile up and the seasons race by, I find Life has this way of moving forward whether we get on the train or not. What can feel so tragic or unforgivable or important has this way of leaving but a ew r ..read more
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1y ago
I’ve been reading Erica Bauermeister’s delightful book The Lost Art of Mixing. It’s not the greatest piece of literature ever written. The story line is simple and uncomplicated, but her use of language and word ..read more
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1y ago
Yesterday I went out to eat with friends at one of the nicer restaurants in our area. The food was good, but the service was inexcusably slow. By the time we had waited over an hour for our checks I was feeling ..read more
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1y ago
The older I get, the more grateful I become. The other night our little CoDa group worked on the 11th step. “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, pray ..read more
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1y ago
Yesterday was election day. Having resisted the impulse to watch the returns last evening I got a good night’s sleep and consequently am feeling a bit less conflicted than I generally do following elections. I am r ..read more
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1y ago
Our ability to rationalize is absolutely amazing. I am awed by our ability to justify what we want to do, don’t want to do, or have done. I’ve stopped watching TV news because we no longer get to hear the news ..read more
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1y ago
This morning I read a quote in our local paper that got my juices flowing. Dr. Anna DeForest, referring to all of the money Big Pharma spends on lobbying and advertising said, “I realized something about power. Pow ..read more