Rcatron1963's Poems
Here's the list of poems submitted by rcatron1963 — There are currently 111 poems total — keep up the great work!
Attitudes and Actions...Step 6...Lesson Forty Two...Getting "entirely ready" to have God remove "all" our defects of character sounds impossible. In reality we know that such perfection is out of human reach. This is another way of saying that we are going to do our best to work toward a lifelong... | 6 Views added 15 days ago | Rating |
If there are 3 things that I could pass on that I have learned from the Lord, it would be;1. Respect yourself...and your body...for God created you... | 8 Views added 16 days ago | Rating |
Removed, Not Improved...Step 6...Lesson Forty One...Most of us have made numerous attempts at self-improvement. Perhaps we have consciously tried to improve our attitudes, our education, our appearance, or our habits. We may have had success in self-improvement on some level. However, when it comes... | 4 Views added 16 days ago | Rating |
Discovering Hope...Step 6...Lesson Forty...How can we honestly say that we are entirely ready for God to remove our defects of character? If we think in terms of all or nothing, we may get stuck here because we will never feel entirely ready. It is important to keep in mind that the Twelve... | 4 Views added 16 days ago | Rating |
Removing Deeper Hurts...Step 6...Lesson Thirty Nine...When we are upset, we often depend on our addictions to make us feel better. As we get rid of our addictions, we must face the deeper character defects that God wants to heal. Our addictions function as a place of "shelter" from our pain. But when... | 9 Views added 25 days ago | Rating |
God's Abundant Pardon...Step 6...Lesson Thirty Eight...People tell us to repent and stop thinking the way we do. Most of us would give anything to do this. If it were only that simple to stop our obsessive thoughts! When we are starving emotionally, it is almost impossible to stop thinking about what... | 3 Views added 25 days ago | Rating |
Healing The Brokenness...Step 6...Lesson Thirty Seven...If we have sincerely practiced the previous steps, we have probably found enough pain inside ourselves to break our hearts. Facing the fact that brokenness is part of the human condition can be crushing. But if we have arrived at this point, it is... | 3 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Taking Time to Grieve...Step 6...Lesson Thirty Six...The pathway to recovery and finding new life also involves the death process. The different means we used to use to help us cope were "defective," but still, they did give us comfort or companionship. Giving them up is often like suffering the... | 2 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Escaping Self-Deception...Step 5...Lesson Thirty Five...We may fool ourselves into believing that we can simply bury our wrongs and go on without ever having to admit them. In time, we all discover that those deeds we thought were buried once and for all were actually seeds. They grow and bear fruit.... | 2 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Freedom through Confession...Step 5...Lesson Thirty Four...All of us struggle with our conscience, trying to make peace within our own hearts. We may deny what we have done, find excuses, or try to squirm out from beneath the full weight of our conduct. We may work hard to be "good," trying to counteract... | 0 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Receiving Forgiveness...Step 5...Lesson Thirty Three...As we work our recovery program, we go through a process of accepting the truth about our lives and the consequences of our choices. We may feel that we have to earn forgiveness instead of just receiving it. We may find it easier to forgive others... | 5 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Feelings Of Shame...Step 5...Lesson Thirty Two... Shame has kept many of us hiding. The thought of admitting our sins and revealing ourselves to other human beings stirs up feelings of shame and the fear of being publicly exposed. | 0 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
The Plumb Line...Step 5...Lesson Thirty One...The kinds of instruments we use to measure our lives will often determine the kinds of problems we uncover. If we use faulty guidelines, we can't make accurate assessments. We may wonder why we aren't progressing in the recovery program. It may be... | 0 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Unending Love...Step 5...Lesson Thirty...We may be sorely aware of the deep shame, trouble, and pain we inflicted on our family when we were controlled by our addictions. We may be afraid to admit the exact nature of our wrongs because we don't understand how God could love someone who... | 10 Views added 1 month ago | Rating |
Overcoming Denial...Step 5...Lesson Twenty Nine...Admitting our wrongs to ourselves can be the most difficult part of Step Five. Denial can be blinding! How can we be expected to admit to ourselves those things we are blind to? Here's a clue that can help us. We will often condemn in others the... | 1 View added 1 month ago | Rating |
God's Mercy...Step 4...Less on Twenty Eight... We may wish we could avoid taking moral inventory; it's normal to want to hide from personal examination. But in our hearts we probably sense that a day will come when we will have to face the truth about ourselves and our lives. | 14 Views added 2 months ago | Rating |
Constructive Sorrow...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Seven...We all have to deal with sorrow. We may try to stuff our sorrow down and ignore it. We may try to drown it by giving in to our addictions or avoid feeling it by intellectualizing. But sorrow doesn't go away. We need to accept the sorrow that will... | 2 Views added 2 months ago | Rating |
Finger Pointing...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Six...There have probably been times when we have ignored our own sins and problems and pointed a finger at someone else. We may be out of touch with our internal affairs because we are still blaming others for our moral choices. Or perhaps we avoid... | 5 Views added 2 months ago | Rating |
Family Influence...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Five...Our family of origin has had an influence on who we are today. Some of us want to pretend that our family was, or is, nearly perfect. Others of us may tend to avoid responsibility for our actions by blaming our family. Whatever the case, when we... | 1 View added 2 months ago | Rating |
Confession...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Four...As we make our moral inventory, we will probably find ourselves listing our destructive habits, our defects of character, the wrongs we have done, the consequences of wrong choices that we now live with, and the hurts we have caused others. It's... | 1 View added 2 months ago | Rating |
Facing The Sadness...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Three...Most of us falter at the prospect of making an honest personal inventory. Rationalizations and excuses for avoiding this step abound. The bottom line is that we know there is an enormous amount of sadness awaiting us, and we fear the pain that... | 6 Views added 2 months ago | Rating |
Coming Out Of Hiding...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Two...Many of us have spent our life in a state of hiding, ashamed of who we are inside. We may hide by living a double life, by using drugs or giving in to other addictions to make us feel like someone else, or by self-righteously setting ourselves... | 5 Views added 3 months ago | Rating |
Single-Minded Devotion...Lesson Twenty OneWe may have already chosen to follow God, letting him define the overall direction of our life. Even so, many of us still try to keep parts of our heart hidden from God. We have devoted these parts of ourselves to gratifying our addiction, to do... | 2 Views added 3 months ago | Rating |
Discovering God...Lesson Twenty...Before we can turn our lives over to God, we need to have an accurate understanding of who he is. It is crucial that we entrust ourselves to the God who loves us and not to the "god" of this world, who seeks only to deceive and destroy us. The... | 6 Views added 3 months ago | Rating |
Submission and Rest...Lesson Nineteen...When our burdens become heavy and we find that our way of life is leading us toward death, we may finally be willing to let someone else do the driving. We may have worked hard at getting our lives on the right track but still feel as if we always... | 12 Views added 4 months ago | Rating |
No Pain, No Gain?I've heard this saying throughout all of my days, | 11 Views added 4 months ago | Rating |
How can I be sure I will go to heaven? "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." Acts 16:31 | 121 Views added 4 months ago | Rating |
"Redeeming The Past" Lesson EighteenEach one of us comes to God with a past. In turning our lives over to him, we give him our entire selves, including our past losses and shame. We hand over to him every moment of disgrace, every tear we have ever cried, every word we wish we... | 6 Views added 5 months ago | Rating |
Giving Up Control" Lesson SeventeenThe thought of turning our wills and our lives over can be attractive. When we give in to our dependencies and compulsions, aren't we giving control over to another power? Aren't we in some way giving up personal responsibility for our lives? When... | 4 Views added 5 months ago | Rating |
Free To ChooseEveryone has a life-or-death decision to make. We have all been created with the supreme privilege of free will - the ability to choose. Even when we are in the bondage of our addictions, we still have choices confronting us. When we are in... | 8 Views added 6 months ago | Rating |
