Category Archives: Today’s Encouragement
Ever Closer
“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” —Natalia Campbell It’s easy to get weary of recovery. Stretching, risking, praying, analyzing, trying. It’s exhausting at times. Sometimes we wonder if we’re making any progress at all—especially when we have a slip or find ourselves falling into old patterns of thinking.…
Maintaining Momentum
Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance you must keep moving. — Unknown It’s true in life . . . but even more true in recovery. Without forward momentum we quickly begin to wobble. Once that happens, if we don’t have outside assistance to come…
Reclaiming Ourselves
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot (1818-1880) George Eliot was an English novelist in the 1800s. Interestingly enough, “George” was actually a woman—Mary Ann Evans—who believed that during the time she lived she had to use a male pen name to have her writing taken seriously. But,…
The Power of “I Can’t”
A short time ago I was re-reading Corrie ten Boom’s book, Tramp for the Lord. As Christians in Holland during World War II, Corrie and her family helped many Jews escape the Nazi holocaust. Eventually the ten Boom’s were arrested for these activities, her father killed, and she and her sister sent to a concentration…
Progress, not Perfection
Recovery, like so many other important things in our life, is a process. We don’t just wake up one morning six inches taller, thirty pounds lighter, or able to play an instrument that we’ve never picked up before. And, except in the rarest of cases, we aren’t going to wake up tomorrow completely free of…
Our Story . . .
