Recovery Thought:  12/21/08 It is very necessary to keep that word "Absolute" in mind. It is like a clear white light searching into all sorts of hidden corners. It makes sure that I shall not overlook the places where I was content with a second best or excused myself for a compromise. Honesty? Well, that is not too bad. I do not rob the till, or make fraudulent returns to the Inspector of Taxes. (Or do I ?) But Absolute Honesty? That looks different. Do I make elaborate excuses over something that I have simply forgotten to do? Do I waste my employer's time by lateness or slackness? Am I living in the open with my family? -- When a Man Listens  Recovery Thought: 12/14/09 Life-changing is simply normal Christian living. Its doing Christ's work. If our aim fall below that level we are failing Him. -- When a Man Listens   Recovery Thought: 12/06/09 ...initial surrender, if it is thorough and honest, is met at once from God's side. When we hand over God takes charge, and things begin to happen. -- When a Man Listens   Christians in Recovery® Tip, Thought, Scripture, Prayer & Updates Recovery Thought: 12/03/08 [when we surrender] a world of strain falls from us. The business of running life is off our hands. We find that we get through more work, because it is being ordered better. We meet people we were afraid of, and discover that fear has gone. A habit that always beat us seems to have lost its power. Someone we could not bear appears to us in a new light, and we love them. We come through an ordeal and know that it was not in our own strength. The fascinating experience of getting re-made has begun. -- When a Man Listens   Recovery Thought: 11/30/08 .. one of the serious effects of our reserve and spiritual isolation is that we have become strangers to our own souls. God has to bring us right out into the light, where we can see ourselves stripped of self-deception and face the naked truth. -- When a Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/20/08 The most frequent reason for our isolation is fear. It is fear which makes us hide. We are afraid of many things. We fear the loss of reputation. We think that if other people saw what we are really like, they would laugh at our mistakes and despise us for our failures. So we cover up our mistakes and failures with silence or self excuse. We pose as confident, when we are nothing of the kind. The face we present to the world is really a mask. -- When Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/15/09 We have made our plans and decisions first, and then sought God's blessing and assistance. Prayer, when it consists of this one-sided address by us to God, becomes increasingly unreal and is eventually dropped or only formally retained. Christian prayer begins with the desire to know God's will for us and be brought under His control. -- When Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/08/09 ..if is to be heard and His plan to be known and carried out, man must listen. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com   Recovery Thought: 11/04/08 Our reasoning is very often only an elaborate means of justifying what we want to do; our decisions are dictated by fear, prejudice, feeling, and our disguised lust. And none of us can see  the issues involved in our simplest act. -- When Man Listens www..healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 10/27/09 God speaks. That is the tremendous fact around which both the Old and New Testaments are built - not that man can and may speak to God, but that God can and does speak to man. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 10/11/09 God does, not want children who will just behave themselves and give Him no trouble. He wants willing co-operators who will allow Him to direct their lives in every detail, and to fit them together as a living part of His plan of reconstruction. It is when we are prepared to seek the will of God at this level that we shall find the answer to all our own problems, and the world's problems as well. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com   Recovery Thought:  9/29/09 God cannot take over my life unless I am willing. Willingness is not a matter of feeling. It is not a vague desire that God should change me. It is not an impulsive resolve to obey God in future. It is a very practical thing. If a man is bankrupt and consents to his chief creditor reorganizing and running the business, the first thing he must do is to produce the books - all of them. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 9/19/09 Our fundamental need is for Him to be in charge. Our fundamental sin is that we have not allowed Him to be. We may have referred some of our difficulties and questions to Him. We may have accepted portions of His programme for us - selected according to taste - but we have not given Him complete command. The self-run life has been our trouble. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 9/17/09 To face a completely honest talk with someone I can trust makes me see myself as I could never do in any other way. It may bring to light much that I have missed. It will certainly make it harder for me to go back or postpone carrying out my resolutions. This is one of the purposes for which God has given us fellow- ship. It is dangerous to neglect it. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com     (c) Tuchy Palmieri  October 2nd 2009 God is sin.-- When a Man Listens   Recovery Thought:  12/21/08 It is very necessary to keep that word "Absolute" in mind. It is like a clear white light searching into all sorts of hidden corners. It makes sure that I shall not overlook the places where I was content with a second best or excused myself for a compromise. Honesty? Well, that is not too bad. I do not rob the till, or make fraudulent returns to the Inspector of Taxes. (Or do I ?) But Absolute Honesty? That looks different. Do I make elaborate excuses over something that I have simply forgotten to do? Do I waste my employer's time by lateness or slackness? Am I living in the open with my family? -- When a Man Listens  Recovery Thought: 12/14/09 Life-changing is simply normal Christian living. Its doing Christ's work. If our aim fall below that level we are failing Him. -- When a Man Listens   Recovery Thought: 12/06/09 ...initial surrender, if it is thorough and honest, is met at once from God's side. When we hand over God takes charge, and things begin to happen. -- When a Man Listens   Christians in Recovery® Tip, Thought, Scripture, Prayer & Updates Recovery Thought: 12/03/08 [when we surrender] a world of strain falls from us. The business of running life is off our hands. We find that we get through more work, because it is being ordered better. We meet people we were afraid of, and discover that fear has gone. A habit that always beat us seems to have lost its power. Someone we could not bear appears to us in a new light, and we love them. We come through an ordeal and know that it was not in our own strength. The fascinating experience of getting re-made has begun. -- When a Man Listens   Recovery Thought: 11/30/08 .. one of the serious effects of our reserve and spiritual isolation is that we have become strangers to our own souls. God has to bring us right out into the light, where we can see ourselves stripped of self-deception and face the naked truth. -- When a Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/20/08 The most frequent reason for our isolation is fear. It is fear which makes us hide. We are afraid of many things. We fear the loss of reputation. We think that if other people saw what we are really like, they would laugh at our mistakes and despise us for our failures. So we cover up our mistakes and failures with silence or self excuse. We pose as confident, when we are nothing of the kind. The face we present to the world is really a mask. -- When Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/15/09 We have made our plans and decisions first, and then sought God's blessing and assistance. Prayer, when it consists of this one-sided address by us to God, becomes increasingly unreal and is eventually dropped or only formally retained. Christian prayer begins with the desire to know God's will for us and be brought under His control. -- When Man Listens Recovery Thought: 11/08/09 ..if is to be heard and His plan to be known and carried out, man must listen. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com   Recovery Thought: 11/04/08 Our reasoning is very often only an elaborate means of justifying what we want to do; our decisions are dictated by fear, prejudice, feeling, and our disguised lust. And none of us can see  the issues involved in our simplest act. -- When Man Listens www..healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 10/27/09 God speaks. That is the tremendous fact around which both the Old and New Testaments are built - not that man can and may speak to God, but that God can and does speak to man. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 10/11/09 God does, not want children who will just behave themselves and give Him no trouble. He wants willing co-operators who will allow Him to direct their lives in every detail, and to fit them together as a living part of His plan of reconstruction. It is when we are prepared to seek the will of God at this level that we shall find the answer to all our own problems, and the world's problems as well. -- When Man Listens www.healing-habits.com   Recovery Thought:  9/29/09 God cannot take over my life unless I am willing. Willingness is not a matter of feeling. It is not a vague desire that God should change me. It is not an impulsive resolve to obey God in future. It is a very practical thing. If a man is bankrupt and consents to his chief creditor reorganizing and running the business, the first thing he must do is to produce the books - all of them. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 9/19/09 Our fundamental need is for Him to be in charge. Our fundamental sin is that we have not allowed Him to be. We may have referred some of our difficulties and questions to Him. We may have accepted portions of His programme for us - selected according to taste - but we have not given Him complete command. The self-run life has been our trouble. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com Recovery Thought: 9/17/09 To face a completely honest talk with someone I can trust makes me see myself as I could never do in any other way. It may bring to light much that I have missed. It will certainly make it harder for me to go back or postpone carrying out my resolutions. This is one of the purposes for which God has given us fellow- ship. It is dangerous to neglect it. -- When a Man Listens www.healing-habits.com     (c) Tuchy Palmieri  October 2nd 2009