by Jodie Stevens | Dec 12, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Hope, Thankfulness |
When we thank God every day for our blessings, our successes don’t go to our head and our failures don’t destroy us. It’s all Gods anyway. “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.” (Psalm...
by Jodie Stevens | Oct 6, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope, Love, Patience |
The recovery process is often described as like “peeling back layers of an onion.” Each new season produces a harvest of discoveries. Sometimes they make our soul blossom like a flower; other times they’re like a drought withering our insides with pain, sorrow and...
by Jodie Stevens | Sep 26, 2016 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
“It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was the most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting...
by Jodie Stevens | Sep 22, 2016 | Choices, Hope, Love |
…for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned. (Song of Solomon 8:6-7)...
